Bard Music Festival
Program Ten • A Lasting Influence: Mozart’s Legacy
August 16
Bard Music Festival
August 16
A master of all genres who revolutionized the opera and concerto forms, Mozart was instrumental in shaping the trajectory of Western concert music. Rather than attempting to capture the full scope of this singular impact, Program Ten, “A Lasting Influence: Mozart’s Legacy,” pairs Mozart’s unfinished, posthumously discovered D-minor Fantasia — a dark but well-loved masterpiece — with some of those of his peers’ and successors’ works that he inspired most directly. These include variations on a Papageno aria by Beethoven, on whose early career Mozart exerted a powerful influence; variations on a theme from Le nozze di Figaro by Beethoven’s friend, the Bohemian-born composer-theorist Anton Reicha; the formidably demanding piano fantasy on themes from Don Giovanni by Franz Liszt, who considered Mozart “the greatest of all masters”; selections from the piano arrangement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Mozartiana, composed to mark the centennial of Don Giovanni; and the virtuosic concert fantasy on themes from The Magic Flute by Spanish violinist-composer Pablo de Sarasate. Finally, the String Sextet from Capriccio by Richard Strauss—the composer of this season’s SummerScape opera, The Egyptian Helen, and one in whom Mozart’s influence ran especially deep—offers a modern reflection on the Classical, Mozartean ideals of beauty and structural balance in a nostalgic 18th-century setting.
11 am • Preconcert Talk
11:30 am • Performance: Ariel Quartet; Keith Bonner, flute; Luosha Fang, violin/viola; Lun Li, violin; Michael Stephen Brown, Danny Driver, and Orion Weiss, piano; and others
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)
Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, K397 (ca. 1782)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
12 Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” (1796)
Anton Reicha (1770–1836)
18 Variations on a Theme from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Op. 51 (1804)
Franz Liszt (1811–86)
Réminiscences de Don Juan (1841)
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
From Mozartiana, Suite No. 4, Op. 61 (1887; arr. piano)
Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908)
Fantasy on Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Op. 54 (ca. 1900)
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
String Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85 (1940–41)
Artwork: Hommage a Mozart by Raoul Dufy (1915); Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum; ARS
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