Name: Mozart the Radical
Start: 2022-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Herbst Theater

Organization

Conductor

Richard Egarr

Pianist

Soprano

Elizabeth Watts

Others

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale

Mozart the Radical

Berkeley

United States

Palo Alto

San Francisco

Herbst Theater

Mozart the Radical: Concert

Public

Concert

Approved

Mozart was a composer who loved to test boundaries, and in his Symphony No. 38, you hear him pushing the orchestra of the day to the limit, expanding the horizons of the symphony. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of invention, a riot of creativity.

At the start of the finale, Mozart cheekily squeezes in a little snippet of music from The Marriage of Figaro, so it’s only appropriate that we showcase some of his operatic writing too, including the concert aria “Will I forget you? … Fear not, beloved,” here with Elizabeth Watts in her PBO debut.

Dark, tragic, and passionate, Mozart’s Concerto No. 24 was admired by none other than Beethoven, and for this concert, the original textures and sounds of the work are revealed with Richard Egarr performing it on a fortepiano, the instrument for which it was written.

English

Mozart the Radical by Various, Sun 13 Feb 2022, From (2022/2022), Conductor Richard Egarr, Herbst Theater, San Francisco, United States

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