Australian Haydn Ensemble: Schubert Songs

The Australian Haydn Ensemble is one of this country’s leading historically informed orchestras and chamber music groups. Formed in 2012, the ensemble has performed all over Australia, and has collaborated with leading Australian and international historical specialist performers. The Australian Haydn Ensemble’s founder, artistic director and principal violinist Skye McIntosh is one of the Library’s Creative Residents in 2025.

Schubert Songs weaves together some of Classical and Romantic composer Franz Schubert’s beloved lieder (songs) with four movements of Mendelssohn for String Quartet. Schubert’s lieder are traditionally performed with voice and piano, but for this program you will hear stunning arrangements for baritone and string quartet.

Much more than a lieder recital, this concert features some of Schubert’s most darkly hued songs, superbly delivered by David Greco’s mahogany bass-baritone, and intensified by expressive string quartet accompaniments.

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• David Greco, bass baritone

• Skye McIntosh, violin – Skye is playing a violin by Tomaso Eberle, 1770, Naples

• Matthew Greco, violin – Matthew is playing a violin by David Christian Hopf, 1760, Quittenbach

• Karina Schmitz, viola – Karina is playing a viola by Francis Beaulieu, 2011, Montreal after Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza, 1793, Milan

• Daniel Yeadon*, cello – Daniel is playing a cello by William Forster II, 1781, London

*Daniel Yeadon appears courtesy of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music