Mozart's Jupiter
Mozart's Jupiter
Conductor Leo Hussain
Recorder Genevieve Lacey
Tchaikovsky Suite No.4 ‘Mozartiana’
Elena Kats-Chernin Re-inventions (after Bach)
Purcell (trans. George Benjamin) Three Consorts
Mozart Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’
Est. running time one hour and 38 minutes including a 20-minute interval
In a programme designed to pay tribute to musical predecessors, the evening opens with Tchaikovsky’s sentimental tribute to the composer he worshipped and culminates in Mozart’s 'Jupiter' — his final and greatest symphony.
Working with the astonishing recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey, Elena Kats-Chernin radically reshaped Bach’s Two-Part Inventions and one even became ‘a kind of mysterious tango’.
For George Benjamin, it was Purcell’s music ‘with its mesmerising intersection of line and harmony', that he says changed his path as a composer.
