Description
Serenade for Strings
Mozart meets Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich
Who’s the Mozart you know? Is he the child prodigy, writing perfectly formed symphonies at the age of 10?
Is he the lyrical Mozart, the composer you can hum? Or is he the subversive Mozart of popular fiction (and history!) – the prankster thumbing his nose at stuffy conventions?
This concert reveals all three, through Mozart’s own music and the music of two admirers. There’s a circus mood in the diverting brilliance of Shostakovich’s piano-and-trumpet team. His outrageous parodies run the gamut from Mozart to Rachmaninoff, and no cliché is safe in this exhilarating music. Not even Tchaikovsky’s trademark lushness escapes!
Tchaikovsky’s musical defence is his “best thing”, the elegant and sumptuous Serenade for strings. Before its premiere he said, “I am violently in love with this work and can’t wait for it to be played.” Our sentiments exactly.
MOZART
Symphony in G (Old Lambach)
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for strings
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No.1
Dene Olding violin-director
Simon Tedeschi piano
Paul Goodchild trumpet
Complimentary morning tea served in the Concert Hall foyer from 10am.
Venue: Concert Hall
Dates: 11 June 11am
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