1766 – a retrospective

Intro

Following last season’s triumphant launch of MOZART 250, we continue our unique traversal of the musical scene 250 years ago with a fascinating programme of works dating from 1766.

The repertoire is surprisingly varied and wide-ranging, including works composed in Holland by the ten-year-old Mozart during the return leg of his Grand Tour. It also features works composed in Ludwigsburg, Vienna, Eisenstadt, Venice, Bordeaux and London, ranging from intriguing operatic rarities by Jommelli and Guglielmi to dynamic symphonic repertoire by Vanhal and Franz Ignaz Beck.

Programme

Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, K.22

“De’ miei desiri ormai… Che farò?” from Il Vologeso

“Per pietà , bell’ idol mio”, K.78

“O temerario Arbace… Per quel paterno amplesso”, K.79

Symphony in G minor

“Et incarnatus est” from Missa Cellensis in honorem BVM

“Povera me!… Sento, ahimè, nè sò che sia” from Lo spirito di contradizione

1^st movement from Symphony in D major, Op.4, no.1

“Ah, why shou’d love with tyrant sway” from A Collection of Favourite Songs sung at Vauxhall

“Or che il dover… Tali e cotanti sono”, K.36

Symphony in G major, K.45a, ‘Old Lambach’