MOZART FESTIVAL
To mark the end of the summer, Wilton's presents a week of major chamber works by Mozart. This offers a unique chance to hear the three 'Prussian' Quartets, played as a set, as they were intended, as well as Mozart's last major chamber work, the E flat Major Quintet. The central concert focuses on hte brilliant piano quartets, concerti in all but name, which Mozart wrote in the mid 1780s.
Each evening concert will be preceded by a free pre-concert presentation, exploring aspects of the programme in gerater depth.
CONCERT 1
2 Piano Quartets - 10 September 7.30pm
Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde, Aaron Shorr
- K 404a and 405 Bach / Mozart Preludes and Fugues
- K 302 Mozart - G major Sonata
- K 478 Piano Quartet in G minor
- K 493 Piano Quartet in E flat Major
- Plus: Paul Pellay - New work for Wilton's
Pre Concert Event at 6.30pm: "Accompanied chamber music - who's accompanying who?"
Mozart was commissioned to compose three piano quartets in 1785. However, amatuers found the first of these too difficult to play. So the publishers, Hoffmeister, paid Mozart in advance, on condition that he not write any more works in this adventurous medium. Fortunately for us, he seeems to have forgotten his undertaking within a year! Mozart made the arrangements of Bach preludes and fugues for the very idealistic evenings of contrapuntal music organised by the Baron von Sweiten.
- Date: Wednesday 10 September
- Time: 6.30pm pre concert event, 7.30pm concert. Bar open from 6.30pm
- Box Office: 020 7702 2789 or ONLINE
- Tickets: £15 - buy for a second concert and get the second concert half price! The code is salzburg if you book online.