Sir Simon Rattle © Doug Peters
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Rattle
Mozarts drei letzte Symphonien
Sunday
16
February
2025
11:00
Großer Saal
Performers
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Sir Simon Rattle, Dirigent
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphonie Es-Dur K 543 (1788)
Symphonie g-moll K 550 (1788)
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Symphonie C-Dur K 551 »Jupiter-Symphonie« (1788)
Subscription series
Meisterwerke
Links
https://www.br-so.de
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Three at one stroke
Summer 1788 in Vienna: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes three symphonies within a few weeks. At the time, it was not yet clear that they would be his last. To this day, they are among the most important works of the genre. There has been much speculation as to whether they are a coherent work, a kind of secret cycle - a theory supported by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the conductor and musicologist Peter Gülke, for example. These are extremely individual works of a completely different character. “The E flat major symphony begins with a proper overture or Intrada (like neither of the other two). The C major symphony ends with a proper finale (like neither of the other two). The G minor symphony has no real beginning,” says Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Now there is an opportunity to hear the whole triad, opening with a slow introduction and ending with a brilliant fugue, in a single evening - as interpreted by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle.