An Evening of Mozart
An Evening of Mozart
Friday January 22, 2010
2:00  PM
Verizon Hall

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Nicholas McGegan - Conductor

Robert Levin - Piano

Program:

MOZART - Incidental Music from Thamos, King of Egypt

MOZART - Piano Concerto No. 18, K. 456

MOZART - Symphony No. 40

Description:

British conductor Nicholas McGegan and American pianist Robert Levin are brilliant examples of how scholar-performers can use smarts to bring music to life. McGegan's Mozart is so full of surprise and originality it's as if he's creating it on the spot. Levin knows the Salzburg master's style so intimately he can improvise music that only a pro can tell is not really by Mozart. Take the composer's florid B-flat-major Concerto, K. 456 (in Levin's Philadelphia Orchestra debut), add the Orchestra premiere of music the teenaged Mozart wrote for a German play and the intensely theatrical G-minor Symphony, and you have a Magnificently Mozart Moment.