Artists
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
- Date
- Fri 23 Dec 2016, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756-1791
- Night Music K388
- Leopold Mozart1719-1787
- Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt: Divertimento in F major(arranged by Ernst Schlader)
Interval
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756-1791
- Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman' K265(arranged by Georg Druschetzky)
- Antonio Salieri1750-1825
- Armonia per un tempio della notte
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827
- Octet in E flat Op. 103
Encore
- James Lord Pierpont1822-1893
- Jingle Bells
Overview
A musical sleigh-ride by Mozart’s father, themusic of freemasonry, nocturnal serenadesand a dozen variations on a popular Frenchnursery rhyme stand together in thisprogramme of works for wind instruments.Mozart composed his ‘Night Music’ in Viennain the early 1780s to satisfy the imperial city’sappetite for wind ensemble music, a demandalso served by the former regimental musicianGeorg Druschetzky.
Members of Berlin’srenowned Akademie für Alte Musik concludewith the young Beethoven’s vivacious Octet.