Experience an evening of pure Mozart and Beethoven bliss with the MSO, much-loved Melbourne pianist Stefan Cassomenos and Cybec Assistant Conductor Carlo Antonioli.
- Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23 was written only two months before the premiere of his opera The Marriage of Figaro,and the operatic influence on this dramatic and characterful piano concerto is palpable.
- Beethoven’s brief Coriolan Overture was written as incidental music for the play by Heinrich von Collins, after William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. This overture shows the inner natures of the principal characters, and is the most notable remaining aspect of von Collins’ play.
- In 1812 when he was almost completely deaf, Beethoven composed his Eighth Symphony, which has been described quite brilliantly as one of the ‘shortest, weirdest, and most compelling symphonies of the 19th Century’ (The Guardian). What appears on the surface as light-hearted playfulness is in reality a highly experimental, radical work that challenged the idea of the symphony as a genre.
Featuring
- ConductorCarlo Antonioli*
- PianoStefan Cassomenos
*Cybec Assistant Conductor
Repertoire
- BeethovenCoriolan Overture
- MozartPiano Concerto No.23
- BeethovenSymphony No.8
