New York String Orchestra
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New York String Orchestra: Also performing , and , and December 24, and and December 28.
Jaime Laredo: Also performing , and , and December 24, and and December 28.
Performers
New York String Orchestra
Jaime Laredo, Conductor
Ricardo Morales, Clarinet
Program
ALL-MOZART PROGRAMOverture to The Impresario
Clarinet Concerto
Symphony No. 36, "Linz"
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately one hour with no intermission.At a Glance
MOZART Overture to The Impresario
In 1786, Mozart took a break from working on The Marriage of Figaro—the first of his three landmark collaborations with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte—to compose a handful of numbers for a lighthearted one-act Singspiel about dueling divas and theatrical entrepreneurship. The effervescent Overture to The Impresario has long had a life of its own outside the opera house.
MOZART Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Traditionally associated with folk music and wind bands, the clarinet was still something of a novelty in chamber and orchestral concert music in the late 18th century, when Mozart featured it in a series of masterpieces culminating in his beloved Clarinet Concerto of 1791. The concerto was inspired by, and tailored for, the virtuosity of Anton Stadler, who had recently invented an instrument with an expanded bass range called the basset clarinet.
MOZART Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, “Linz”
Mozart’s last six symphonies—all composed in the final decade of his life, after he relocated from provincial Salzburg to the imperial capital of Vienna—are his most significant contributions to a genre that enjoyed an exalted status in late–18th-century Vienna. Written in haste, the “Linz” Symphony doesn’t rise to the level of the great G-Minor and “Jupiter” symphonies. Yet, in the words of musicologist Neal Zaslaw, it “poses artistic challenges and plumbs emotional depths previously absent from Mozart’s symphonies.”