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Sun Herald

Sunday February 26, 2006

KATARINA KROSLAKOVA

MAGNIFICENT MOZART - AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG

ORCHESTRA

City Recital Hall, Angel Place. March 1, 3, 4. Tickets $22-$99.50. Bookings 8256 2222.

THE Brandenburg Orchestra is starting its year off in impressive style, making sure there are more musicians on stage than ever before. The small chamber ensemble is being joined by the Brandenburg Choir, the boy trebles of St Mary's Cathedral, vocal soloists as well as three rare classical trombones (and their players).

The reason for the full house of festivities?

Mozart, of course!

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth, the orchestra performs an evening of all-Mozart music.

And by doing so on period instruments (including those trombones), audiences get an authentic experience, says artistic director Paul Dyer: "What we aim to present is a performance as close to the real thing as we can." So we will actually hear the music like Mozart would've wanted us to.

The four works programmed range from the profound and spiritual to epic and expressive, including the Jupiter Symphony and the Coronation Mass. And those three classical trombones will be lead by the best in the business - Professor Susan Addison, principal of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.KK

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