Bard Music Festival
Program One • The Many Facets of Mozart
August 7
Bard Music Festival
August 7
The 36th Bard Music Festival launches with Program One, “The Many Facets of Mozart.” Harnessing Bard’s unusual ability to integrate orchestral, vocal, and chamber works within a single event, this program will be presented with commentary by Leon Botstein. Devoted entirely to Mozart’s own music, it spans the breadth of the composer’s short career, from the pioneering four-hands duet he wrote as a teenager to Eine kleine deutsche Kantate, a work reflecting his commitment to Freemasonry, written shortly before his death. Other featured works include the masterly Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Winds, which he famously considered his best composition; Ch’io mi scordi di te?, the virtuosic opera aria-cum-piano concerto that he performed with The Marriage of Figaro’s first Susanna; the popular Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, which showcases his solo string writing; and his delightful “Paris” Symphony, composed in the French capital during the final years of the Ancien Regime.
7 pm • Performance with commentary by Leon Botstein (plus livestream)
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)
Sonata in D Major, for piano four-hand, K381 (1772)
Allegro
Andante
Allegro molto
Piers Lane and Danny Driver, piano
Eine kleine deutsche Kantate, K619 (1791) (Ziegenhagen)
Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt
Joshua Blue, tenor
Kayo Iwama, piano
Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, K452 (1784)
Largo—Allegro moderato
Larghetto
Allegretto
Alexandra Knoll, oboe
Shari Hoffman, clarinet
Karl Kramer-Johansen, horn
Gina Cuffari, bassoon
Danny Driver, piano
INTERMISSION
Mozart/Michael Haydn (1737–1806)
From Symphony No. 37 in G Major, K444 (1783–84)
Allegro con spirito
The Orchestra Now
Leon Botstein, conductor
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Ch’io mi scordi di te?, K505 (1786)
Katrina Galka, soprano
Anna Polonsky, piano
Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major, K364 (1779–80)
Allegro maestoso
Andante
Presto
Grace Park, violin
Barry Shiffman, viola
Symphony No. 31 in D Major, “Paris,” K297 (1778)
Allegro assai
Andante
Allegro
The Orchestra Now
Leon Botstein, conductor
Artwork: Posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, painted by Barbara Krafft at the request of Joseph Sonnleithner in 1819; Wikimedia Commons
Tenor
Soprano
Bassoon
Clarinet
Oboe
Horn
Piano
Piano
Piano
Piano
Violin
Viola
Conductor, The Orchestra Now
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