Mozart Birthday Concert

Ian Page and The Mozartists celebrate Mozart’s 270th birthday with a programme of works composed during the course of 1776.

They perform three entr’actes from Mozart’s incidental music to the play Thamos, King of Egypt, which contain some of his most dynamic and startlingly modernistic music, and the programme culminates with a symphony comprising four movements from his ‘Haffner’ Serenade – one of his earliest masterpieces, but still mysteriously neglected by most conductors and concert planners.

In between, they present Mozart’s only concert aria for alto and an exuberantly festive symphony by Haydn.

Programme:
Mozart Entr’acte from Incidental Music to Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345
Mozart Concert Aria, “Ombra felice… Io ti lascio”, K.255
Haydn Symphony No. 69 in C major, ‘Loudon’
Mozart Two Entr’actes from Incidental Music to Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345
Mozart Symphony from Serenade in D major, K.250, ‘Haffner’

Zheng Jiang countertenor
The Mozartists
Ian Page conductor