It started with a conversation and ended in a celebration when the Australian Haydn Ensemble launched its 10th anniversary season in the shadow of the Harbour Bridge in Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Room.
The conversation was a performance of Haydn’s “How Do You Do?” quartet from the game-changing Op. 33 set, and the celebration came in the final movement of Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ quartet in the form of fireworks launched from a barge just 150m outside the huge window to mark the Bridge’s 90th birthday.
In between the four string players – Skye McIntosh and Matthew Greco (violins), Karina Schmitz (viola), and Daniel Yeadon (cello) – took the audience on an excursion to Spain with a lovely reading of Luigi Boccherini’s String Quartet Op. 32 No 5, with its unusual cadenza in the final movement.
The star in the concert’s title was, of course,...
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