Mäkelä conducts Mozart, Mahler and Larcher
Vienna then and now, with Olivier Patey performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
Olivier Patey is the soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. The Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä pair the work with Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony and Thomas Larcher’s Second.
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto places enormous demands on the soloist in the areas of intonation, timing, and expression.
Concert programme
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music, KV 477
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto, KV 622
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Thomas Larcher
Symphony No. 2, 'Kenotaph'
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Gustav Mahler
Adagio from 'Symphony No. 10'
Performers
About this concert
Conductor Klaus Mäkelä uses the music of the Austrians Mozart, Mahler, and Larcher to guide the Concertgebouw Orchestra through several stylistic periods. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto places enormous demands on the soloist in terms of intonation, timing, and expression. Luckily, solo clarinettist Olivier Pate possesses those qualities in spades. The concert also features the Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music): sober and profound pieces written by Mozart to honour two of his fellow members of the Masonic Lodge.
Olivier Patey performs Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto on a new basset clarinet, especially built for him by Buffet Crampon.
The Concertgebouw Orchestra has a special relationship with Gustav Mahler, who composed his Tenth Symphony during a period of extreme personal crisis. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that he never completed the work. The haunting Adagio is the only movement he finished. Thomas Larcher studied in Vienna, the city of Mozart and Mahler. Conductor Klaus Mäkelä calls Larcher’s Symphony No. 2 ‘the best piece composed in the past twenty years.’ The work presents a true burst of energy and contains clear hints of both classical composers and Mahler.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
Conductor Klaus Mäkelä uses the music of the Austrians Mozart, Mahler, and Larcher to guide the Concertgebouw Orchestra through several stylistic periods. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto places enormous demands on the soloist in terms of intonation, timing, and expression. Luckily, solo clarinettist Olivier Pate possesses those qualities in spades. The concert also features the Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music): sober and profound pieces written by Mozart to honour two of his fellow members of the Masonic Lodge.
Olivier Patey performs Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto on a new basset clarinet, especially built for him by Buffet Crampon.
The Concertgebouw Orchestra has a special relationship with Gustav Mahler, who composed his Tenth Symphony during a period of extreme personal crisis. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that he never completed the work. The haunting Adagio is the only movement he finished. Thomas Larcher studied in Vienna, the city of Mozart and Mahler. Conductor Klaus Mäkelä calls Larcher’s Symphony No. 2 ‘the best piece composed in the past twenty years.’ The work presents a true burst of energy and contains clear hints of both classical composers and Mahler.