In part XIX of ‘A Second Chance for Hummel’, a long-term series about the life and work of Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), Hummel tries to find some security after his very succesful concert tours. As a real family man – he’s become a father in the meantime – it’s not in his line to travel all over the place twelve months a year and not have a steady income. So he finds a position as a bandmaster in Stuttgart. In the beginning, the future looks bright, until…
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Concertino in G major op.73, 1st part
Howard Shelley, piano and conductor
London Mozart Players
- Traditional: Pretty Polly
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Adagio, Variations and Rondo of an English song: “The Pretty Polly” in E-flat major gr, op.75
Joanna Trzeciak, piano
- Hummel: Variation on an own theme in A major op.76
- Traditional: Schöne Minka
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Schöne Minka, ich muss scheiden.
Joanna Trzeciak, piano
