MOZART PIANO CONCERTO
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MOZART PIANO CONCERTO
Friday 21st February , 7.30pm , Hall One
After its melancholic predecessor , Mozart ’ s twenty-first piano concerto
Francesco Piemontesi must have seemed like a sudden step into daylight . With longer themes , more musical conversation , a bigger orchestra and a freer way with harmony , this most majestic piece reduced its first audience to tears . For all the radiance therein , and in the flight of Vaughan Williams ’ s ‘ Lark ’, there ’ s more emotional struggle in Beethoven ’ s insistent symphony , one of the composer ’ s first musical protests against his encroaching deafness .
With a post-concert ‘ Northern Sinfonia Presents ...’
Buses from Alnwick and Hexham . Tickets : £ 10- £ 29
Mozart Overture : Così fan Tutte
Mozart Piano Concerto No . 21 in C ( HOF : 53 )
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending ( HOF : 2 )
Beethoven Symphony No . 2 in D
Conductor : Mario Venzago
Piano : Francesco Piemontesi
Violin : Bradley Creswick
Northern Sinfonia
HOF : Classic FM ’ s Hall of Fame 2013 position
“ His playing is intelligent and refined , and he commands a prodigious range of keyboard touch and colour , combined with remarkable powers of articulation ...
Piemontesi ’ s playing is always a delight .”
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