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Mozart & Beethoven

Summer Tour 2024

Programme

  • WAGNER

    Siegfried Idyll

  • MOZART

    Sinfonia Concertante K297b

  • BEETHOVEN

    Symphony No 2

Karel Deseure Conductor
Katherine Bryer Oboe
Maximiliano Martín Clarinet
Cerys Ambrose-Evans Bassoon
Lauren Reeve-Rawlings Horn

Imagine waking up to the Siegfried Idyll: that’s just how Wagner’s wife first heard it on Christmas morning in 1870, and it’s among his most delicate works – an ideal way to start a concert exploring an unexpected side to favourite composers.

Mozart shows his affinity for wind instruments in a surprisingly early Sinfonia Concertante, written for some of the finest musicians of his day and performed here by SCO Principals – after which Beethoven defies expectations in his Symphony No 2, arguably even more revolutionary a work than the Eroica of two years later.

Kindly supported by Eriadne & George Mackintosh and Claire & Anthony Tait.

Three men, the first two in 18th century formal dress (one in black and white, one in a red coat), the last in an old photo, smoking

What is a sinfonia concertante?

We delve into the history of a hybrid genre ...

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