Miracles and Triumphs

Beethoven’s most popular symphony plus WASO’s blazing horns

Joseph HAYDN Symphony No.96 The Miracle
Robert SCHUMANN Konzertstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No.5

Johannes Fritzsch conductor
David Evans horn
Julia Brooke horn
Robert Gladstones horn
Francesco Lo Surdo horn

If Haydn was acclaimed as ‘the father of the symphony’, it is surely his most illustrious student, Beethoven, who thrust the symphony into the popular consciousness. The famous opening four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth launches an epic symphonic journey from tension to exuberant triumph.
Schumann composed his Konzertstuck in 1849, one of the most blazingly creative and happy years of his life, and a sense of joyous euphoria infuses this super virtuosic showpiece.

WASO Horn Section partnered by Rod & Margaret Marston.