The boy Mozart meets Shostakovich in high spirits and Tchaikovsky’s irresistible Serenade for strings.
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Who’s the Mozart you know? Is he the child prodigy, writing perfectly formed symphonies at the age of 10? Is he the lyrical Mozart, the composer you can hum? Or is he the subversive Mozart of popular fiction (and history!) – the prankster thumbing his nose at stuffy conventions?
This concert reveals all three, through Mozart’s own music and the music of two admirers. There’s a circus mood in the diverting brilliance of Shostakovich’s piano-and-trumpet team. His outrageous parodies run the gamut from Mozart to Rachmaninoff, and no cliché is safe in this exhilarating music. Not even Tchaikovsky’s trademark lushness escapes!
Tchaikovsky’s musical defence is his “best thing”, the elegant and sumptuous Serenade for strings. Before its premiere he said, “I am violently in love with this work and can’t wait for it to be played.” Our sentiments exactly.
MOZART Symphony in G (Old Lambach)
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for strings
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No.1
Dene Olding violin-director
Simon Tedeschi piano
Paul Goodchild trumpet
PRE-CONCERT TALKS
Free pre-concert talk by David Garrett at 6.15pm in the First Floor Reception Room.
AUDIO PLAYER LISTING
Track 1 – SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No.1: 2nd movement (Lento)
Track 2 – SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No.1: 4th movement (Allegro con brio)
John Ogdon, piano, and John Wilbraham, trumpet, with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner
DECCA 466 664-21
Visit again in 2010 for more highlights from this concert.
Audio kindly supplied by Universal Music.