Matsukawa Plays Mozart
Matsukawa Plays Mozart
Friday October 16, 2009
2:00  PM
Verizon Hall

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Roger Norrington - Conductor

Daniel Matsukawa - Bassoon

Program:

BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 4

MOZART - Bassoon Concerto

SCHUMANN - Symphony No. 1 ("Spring")

Description:

The Philadelphia Orchestra welcomes back British conductor Roger Norrington, whose musical mind has taken him into virtually every area of the symphonic repertoire. Mozart's earliest extant wind concerto, written at age 18 when the composer was still living in his native Salzburg, receives royal treatment in the hands of Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Bassoon Daniel Matsukawa. Bookending Mozart's lyrical charms are Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, which runs like sparkling spring water through the Austrian countryside, and Schumann's First Symphony ("Spring"), which, if it were poetry, might be a lively kind of verse, full of rhythm and youthful sweep.