Maria Wloszczowska, leader

Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat major ‘Dumbarton Oaks’

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 2 in D major KV211

Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D major ‘Basel’

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major KV219

Art music is not always classical in the strict sense. In the history of music, classical periods favouring balance and restraint tend to alternate with periods of extravagance and emotional excess. As composer George Antheil from the USA put it, all art in all eras could be described as a classical inhalation followed by a romantic exhalation and the cycle repeating, the point being that art cannot hold its breath for too long without dying. Mozart was 19 years old when he wrote four of his five Violin Concertos at the very heart of the 18th-century Classical period. Stravinsky’s Neo-Classical works are not so much about respecting historical models as about playing with them, and sometimes joking at their expense.

Pre-concert talk 18:10-18:30.

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