Founded in 2010, The Amadè Players are thrilled to be embarking on our most exciting season yet. The past two seasons have included our Purcell Room and Royal Festival Hall début performances, world broadcast premieres of Vivaldi sonatas on BBC Radio 3, an appearance on the BBC's Celebrity Masterchef and education projects involving 500 school children. We are Ensemble in Residence at The Foundling Museum, and in our 2014-2015 season will be performing at St John's Smith Square, Handel House, and Henry Wood Hall. In September 2014 we recorded our first disc for Resonus Classics, to be released this season, supported by concerts and education projects.

Forgotten Vienna

Much of the 2014-2015 season focuses on our Forgotten Vienna project, which seeks to perform music by the composers who inspired and cultivated innovation in eighteenth century Vienna. Alongside Haydn and Mozart, these composers revolutionised the symphony in particular, but also made drastic impacts on the concerto and sacred vocal genres. These concerts, and our first recording for Resonus Classics, focus on Waṅhal, Domnich, Ditters and Rolla, with additional appearances by composers such as Monn and Mysliveček.

"Waṅhal has been close to my heart for several years, since first preparing an edition of the bass concerto for performance, going on to be the subject of both my MA and PhD research. It is wonderful to be performing and recording his music, and pieces by his colleagues that are so rarely heard on the London stage today. There is a unique flavour in each piece, strung together with stylistic and geographic traits that unite these emigre composers and mark them as some of Vienna's most exciting talents, and worthy of greater recognition alongside their more famous colleagues, the young Mozart and the more experienced Haydn"

Nicholas Newland director