Name: Jonathan Biss Plays Mozart
Start: 2016-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Nicholas McGegan

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Jonathan Biss

Piano

Jonathan Biss Plays Mozart

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Public

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271

Symphony No. 100 in G major, Hob.I:100 (''Military'')

The Desert Island

Scylla and Glaucus

Jnanakumar P

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18th century London had never heard anything like Haydn’s “Military” symphony – a piece so riotously entertaining that even elegant society ladies found themselves yelling with glee. And entertainment is exactly what’s on the cards when Nicholas McGegan brings his smiling brand of historically-informed musicianship to bear on an irresistibly quirky programme. Haydn’s smash-hit symphony and stormy overture frame the nymphs, shepherds and love-struck sea-gods of Jean-Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus, and set the context for the 21-year old Mozart’s masterly re-invention of the piano concerto. For the young American pianist Jonathan Biss, Mozart offers “insights, like a stroke of light”; his partnership with McGegan promises to be especially illuminating.

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