Brandenburg embraces Italy for inspiration

Melissa Farrow ... the flautist will join in the Italian celebrations.

Adam Fulton
THE Australian Brandenburg Orchestra will take a looser approach and cross musical boundaries next year in a program flush with Italian flavours inspired by its artistic chief’s recent visit to the country.

Works from Mozart and Handel as well as Italian composers such as Vivaldi figure large in a line-up featuring the Perth mezzo soprano Fiona Campbell – a favoured singing partner of the tenor Jose Carreras – members of the Italian early music ensemble Accordone and a double bill of the Canadian period violinist Marc Destrube and the American Kristian Bezuidenhout on a replica of the fortepiano played by the young Mozart.