Live at the Concertgebouw: ‘…Felix Mendelssohn is accompanied by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart today. It is a most natural choice to hear these two composers in one concert, although the two never met. Mendelssohn was born some twenty years after Mozart’s death, but there are striking similarities between these two child prodigies. Both were gifted with an compositional ease that is unique in the history of music and both had a sense of balance in their music that is nothing short of astonishing. On the program, the Konzertstück and an early symphony by Mendelssohn, plus the symphony no. 36 and a serenade by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…’ [RNW-host Hans Haffmans]

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Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Frans Brüggen
Esther Misbeek, basset horn, Frank van den Brink, clarinet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 8 in D major (version for winds)
Felix Mendelssohn: Konzertstück no. 2 op. 114 in D minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 36 in C major ‘Linzer’

 
 

additional programming:
Igor Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks, concerto in E-flat major
Orchestra of the 18th Century & the Schönberg Ensemble / Frans Brüggen