Mozart & Haydn
9 & 10-4-2010 Fri & Sat 8PM
HK City Hall Concert Hall
HK City Hall Concert Hall
For ages 6 and above
Venue Information
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall
Programme
MOZART
Symphony No.25
TIPPETT
Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
HAYDN
Symphony No.104 London
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Click here to listen to recordings of Gérard Korsten's Mozart and Haydn with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Mozart’s early G minor symphony is a dramatic incursion into the tempestuous world of Sturm und Drang in the 1770s. In the 1790s, Haydn was having his long career’s greatest artistic and financial success in London, where Charles Burney pronounced his final symphonies, “such as were never heard before, or any mortal’s production; of what Apollo & the Muses compose or perform we can only judge by such productions as these.” Throughout their careers, the two classical music giants shared a friendship full of admiration and encouragement, with occasional flares of rivalry. With the two of their classics, in contrasting tones, on one evening, is a performance not to be missed. In 1953, British composer Michael Tippett looked back 250 years for inspiration in composing his elaborate and intricate Fantasia Concertante in which Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.2 makes a turbo-charged virtuoso appearance in modern dress, accompanied by a stereophonic double string orchestra.
Click here to listen to recordings of Gérard Korsten's Mozart and Haydn with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Mozart’s early G minor symphony is a dramatic incursion into the tempestuous world of Sturm und Drang in the 1770s. In the 1790s, Haydn was having his long career’s greatest artistic and financial success in London, where Charles Burney pronounced his final symphonies, “such as were never heard before, or any mortal’s production; of what Apollo & the Muses compose or perform we can only judge by such productions as these.” Throughout their careers, the two classical music giants shared a friendship full of admiration and encouragement, with occasional flares of rivalry. With the two of their classics, in contrasting tones, on one evening, is a performance not to be missed. In 1953, British composer Michael Tippett looked back 250 years for inspiration in composing his elaborate and intricate Fantasia Concertante in which Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.2 makes a turbo-charged virtuoso appearance in modern dress, accompanied by a stereophonic double string orchestra.
Artists
- Club Bravo: 15% off
Members of Young Audiences Scheme: 10% off
Students, Citizens aged 60 or above, People with Disability and CSSA recipients: 50% off (With Quota)
Group discount: 10-19: 10% off - 20 or above: 20% off