G. FRITZ (1716–1783): Symphony in G minor, Op. 6 No. 6
M. HAYDN (1737–1806): Salve Regina in B-flat major, MH 31
J. HAYDN (1732–1809): Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major, Hob. XVIII:11
G. ALBRECHTSBERGER (1736–1809): Salve Regina in C minor, SchAI F.II.5
J. HAYDN: Symphony No. 78 in C minor, Hob. I:78

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Stephan MacLeod invariably surprises audiences with imaginatively constructed programmes. At the closing concert of the Haydneum Eszterháza Festival, two settings of Salve Regina are interwoven with both familiar and lesser-known orchestral works. The Marian hymns by Michael Haydn and Georg Albrechtsberger represent the early Classical style. Opening the concert is a symphony from 1770 by the Swiss composer Gaspard Fritz, whose music was well known in both France and England in its day, while the concluding work, Haydn’s Symphony No. 78 in the Sturm und Drang style, dates from rather more than a decade later. The deservedly popular Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob. XVIII:11 (1779) remains Haydn’s only keyboard concerto still regularly performed today. The soloist will be the Russian musician Olga Pashchenko, who, after graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, deepened her engagement with historical performance practice during her studies in Amsterdam.