Spanish baroque violinist Daniel Pinteño and musicologists Raúl Angulo and Toni Pons have, in collaboration with Paul Dyer, prepared an absorbing program that will showcase the richness of music from the Iberian Peninsula during the 18th century.

Mediterráneo: Music from the courts of Spain features several very rare Spanish baroque works including two Australian premieres and one world premiere as well as two much-loved concertos by Vivaldi.

• Vincente Basset Overtura a più stromenti D major, Bas-9 (Australian premiere)
• Giacamo (Jaime) Facco Concerto à 5 from Pensieri Adriarmonici in E Major, Op. 1, No. 3
• Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Flute La Notte in G Minor, Op. 10, No. 2
• Felix Maximo Lopez Overtura con tutti instrumenti (World premiere)
• Antonio VivaldiI Concerto for Violin in D Major from L’Estro Armonico, Op. 3, No. 9
• Charles Avison Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti in D Major, Op. 6, No. 6 (I Largo, II Con furia)
• Cayetano Brunetti Sinfonia in C Minor Il Maniatico, L. 322 (Australian premiere)

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with Paul Dyer Artistic Director
Daniel Pinteño (Spain): Guest Director, Baroque violin 
Melissa Farrow: Baroque flute

What is it about Ninth Symphonies? Frequently the culminating point of a composer’s symphonic output, they sum up the past and foreshadow the future. They expose the full breadth of a composer’s imagination and exhibit a lifetime’s worth of experiences. Schubert’s Symphony No 9 is all of these things and more. Grand, poetic and poignant, it is Schubert’s last symphony and the finest of them all. With good reason is it known as the “Great”. Few composers wrote as eloquently for the soprano voice as Richard Strauss. Strauss’s sopranos scale the heights and plumb the depths in their quest to touch the human heart. Be moved by celebrated soprano Siobhan Stagg.

• Mills Impromptu, after Schubert
• Strauss, R Orchestral Songs
• Schubert Symphony No 9, Great