Jan Willem de Vriend © Marco Borggreve
Wiener KammerOrchester / Schütz / Lenaerts / de Vriend
Tuesday
29
April
2025
18:30 – ca. 20:00
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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