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.

Related Concerts:

• March 25, 2010
  Mozart and Elgar
• March 26, 2010
  Mozart and Elgar
• April 10, 2010
  The Rite of Spring
• May 28, 2010
  Mozart and Rachmaninoff
• June 12, 2010
  Mahler's Third Symphony

Audio Samples:

MOZART - Symphony No. 40

Concert Enhancements:

Free Pre-Concert Conversation one hour prior to concert (About Pre-Concert Conversations)

Program Notes:

January 21, 2010 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the 2010 Odyssey Collection, and package Saturday 7B

Part of the 2010 Weekday Collection, and package Mini 3B

Part of the 2010 Weekend Collection, and package Saturday 7B