Mozart’s Complete Violin Concertos II. A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

We can reckon on huge contrasts at the second concert of the Complete Works Live series presenting Mozart’s violin concertos. Mozart’s B-flat major concerto had to wait two years before it premiered because he actually wrote it as a 17-year-old in Salzburg in 1773. The Rondo is an alternative to the closing movement of the concerto, written by Mozart at the request of violinist Antonio Brunetti a year after the presentation of the original work. Sinfonia concertante rates as one of the most popular works by Mozart. An interesting feature of the work shifting between symphony and concerto is that the viola solo is notated in D major instead of E-flat major, while the instrument, counterbalancing this, is tuned half a note up, resulting is a very special, bright tone. The divisi viola part of the orchestra similarly supplies an unusually rich heavy tone, crowned by the two oboes and two horns joining the strings. After the intermission, Máté Szűcs, solo violist with Berlin Philharmonics, joins Kristóf Baráti and Prague Philharmonia.