MOZART FESTIVAL
To mark the end of the summer, Wilton's presents a week of major chamber works by Mozart. This offers the 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 the 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 greater depth.
Concert 3
2 Last Quintets - 14 September at 6pm
Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Philippa Mo, Morgan Goff, Pedro Mereiles, Ian Burdge
- K 593 D Major String Quintet
- K 614 E flat major String Quintet
- K 411 Adagio
- Plus: David Gorton - 4 Inventions (Dedicated to Wilton's)
Pre-concert event at 5pm: "How many violas? The carpet-bagging string quartet."
The nascent industrial age, heralded and accelerated by revolution and war, co-existed with the mores and habits of the ancien regime, expressed by the galant style. Neither of these was more or less modern. Artists and composers shuttled back and forth from the impassioned, militaristic style of early romanticism, the late 'age of feeling', to the sureties of fetes galantes. Mozart, like many of his age, clearly needed both of these worlds.
So it is Mozart's two last quintets, which explore musical landscapes which are still revolutionary today; the D major, is essentially courtly, whilst the E flat major, is warlike, and heralding Beethoven's work ten years later.
- Tickets: £15 - buy a ticket for a second concert and get the second HALF PRICE! The code is salzburg when booking online.
- Box Office: 020 7702 2789 or ONLINE
Time: Pre concert event at 5pm, concert at 6pm. Bar open from 5pm. - Date: Sunday 14 September