MOZART PIANO CONCERTO
S E R I E S
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.”
The Guardian on Francesco Piemontesi www. sagegateshead. com 33