Robert Levin plays Mozart

MOZART/LEVIN: Fragments of newly found works for Fortepiano and Orchestra (US Premiere)

LEVIN: Variations on themes submitted by the audience
MOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C major, KV. 551 "Jupiter"

Music Director Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra open their 2010/11 Season on September 29 with a program dedicated to the incomparable musical prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

They are joined by fortepianist Robert Levin for the U.S. premiere of recently discovered Mozart fragments that Levin has arranged for fortepiano and orchestra. An audience favorite from years past, Levin plays with the orchestra in a special historically-informed performance of the Concerto for Fortepiano No. 20 and he also gets to show off a bit as he improvises on musical themes that you suggest!

At the close of the performances, you have the opportunity to hear the Mozart's most well known work – his Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter") – performed on period instruments. One of his final artistic achievements, "Jupiter" is without parallel among his symphonies, being so profuse with an unconventional intensity of emotion and so pregnant with thematic ideas from the formal nobility of the first movement, to the introspective second, to the vast fugal finale. The program will open with Mozart's only incidental music for theatre, Thamos, King of Egypt, a rarely heard work that is amazing for its violence and modernity.

Join Philharmonia Baroque to kick off their 30th Anniversary Season in style!