Jan Willem de Vriend © Marco Borggreve
Wiener KammerOrchester / Schütz / Lenaerts / de Vriend
Monday
28
April
2025
19:30 – ca. 21:00
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
A triad of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
The concert evening of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra under the direction
of its chief conductor Jan Willem de Vriend begins with the overture to
the play about the brutal Roman Coriolan. His heroic swagger is broken
when he stands before his mother, who begs for an end to his cruelty.
Beethoven sends softer sounds towards Coriolan, who is emotionally
shaken by this and even chooses suicide. His last breaths are reserved
for the cellos - an ending that shows that Beethoven was able to create
very vulnerable moments. This is followed by Mozart's Galantes. The
composer was in Paris for the second time at the time of writing. The
breakthrough was to be made there. The Duc de Guines ordered a work
there for family concert entertainment: for himself and his harp-playing
daughter, both with quite presentable playing skills. Despite the
pressure to succeed, Mozart delivered one of his most light-hearted
concertos, which gives the principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic,
Karl-Heinz Schütz, and the principal harpist of the Vienna
Philharmonic, Anneleen Lenaerts, the opportunity to shine. The evening
will conclude with Haydn's so-called »Oxford« Symphony. The work was
given this name because the music was played when Haydn was awarded an
honorary doctorate from Oxford University. The symphony was premiered in
London - a triumph! The Adagio is still considered one of the
composer's most graceful slow movements.
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