Concerto Copenhagen Haydn Project – Vienna 1750

Part of the Lammermuir Festival

One of the world’s truly great period ensembles, Concerto Copenhagen won many friends at the 2024 Festival with their superbly vivid performances of 17th-century music. This year that ever-inventive, always-surprising genius Joseph Haydn is their focus as they return to delight us in a special three-concert residency that places Haydn’s brilliant symphonic writing in the context of music by his contemporaries. With their dynamic, questing approach to music of the 18th-century we can think of no-one better to do this than Lars Ulrik Mortensen and his players. Their first programme climaxes in one of the most radical of Haydn’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ symphonies, the miraculous ‘Palindrome’ (1772), and takes a fascinating diversion into other Viennese music of the period.