
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
International Concert Series Thu 6 Feb 2020, 7:45pm The AnvilReturns Only – join the waiting list
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Programme
- Mozart
- Symphony no. 39
- Symphony no. 40
- Symphony no. 41 (Jupiter)
Performers and Cast
- Iván Fischer
- conductor
Mozart’s last three symphonies were written in a few weeks in summer 1788, unusually without performances already arranged. They make a satisfying triptych, with the relatively serene no. 39 contrasting with the more agitated and unsettled no. 40. The final symphony sums up Mozart’s achievement in the form, with a spacious opening movement, an expressive and chromatic slow movement, and one of his most famous minuets. The finale combines fugue and sonata form in a five-part tour de force.
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is Anvil Arts Orchestra in Association
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One of a vanishingly small number of world-class conductors who make the music, not themselves, the centre of attentionNational Review