Name: Haydn, Schubert, and Mozart
Start: 2024-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Verizon Hall

Organization

Admin

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Conductor

András Schiff

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Piano

Haydn, Schubert, and Mozart

Philadelphia

United States

Verizon Hall

Haydn, Schubert, and Mozart: Piano Concerto in D Major, H.XVIII:11 Haydn (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob.XVIII:11

Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Major, D. 125

Piano Concerto No. 27 in B♭, major, K. 595

Approved

Haydn, Schubert, and Mozart: Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob.XVIII:11 Haydn (+2 More)

“Among current piano titans, András Schiff is the Zen master. He is both utterly relaxed and absolutely awake; taken together, those qualities add up to an unbreakable focus. He is tireless and seemingly infallible, and his playing is window-clear. Listening to Schiff play is like looking into a running stream and seeing all the colorful, round pebbles beneath the water” (San Jose Mercury). 

Who better than this virtuoso to perform a pair of beloved piano classics? Mozart’s final piano concerto, No. 27, is a masterwork of dramatic interplay with the orchestra. Premiered in the year of Mozart’s death, it reflects both the sorrows of his life and his complete mastery of the concerto form, a brilliant flourish of a signature to a storied career. 

Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major, brimming with energy and charm, was written at a high point of his work and personal life. Then nearing 50 years old, he had gained control of his works from a major patron, which enabled him to profit from the publication of his scores; and he had started an affair with a 19-year-old mezzo-soprano. Schiff is acclaimed for his playing of Haydn, a showcase for his “infinitely varied touch, attack and articulation … exquisitely soft and refined passagework that sounded as if the keys were brushed with a feather, not struck with fingers” (Seattle Times). 

Between these two works, the Orchestra shines in Schubert’s Second Symphony, written when he was still a teenager, its bold melodies, interspersed with intense drama, reflecting the passion and energy of a young man on the threshold of a lifetime of creating great music.

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