In last Sunday's programme Come Back
Mozart Christopher Hogwood explained why he and The Academy of Ancient Music are trying to rediscover the style of playing which Mozart expected for his music, a tradition that has been lost for almost 200 years.
' Mozart didn't exist in a vacuum,' says Hogwood, ' and we have to understand the influence of his now less well-known contemporaries. They were experimenting in styles of composition which Mozart adopted.'
This programme includes music by J. C. Bach , who taught Mozart in London, and Vanhal, who played in a string quartet with Haydn, Dittersdorf and Mozart.
J. C. Bach Overture: La Calamita de' Cuori
Mozart Divertimento for wind instruments, in F
Vanhal Symphony in G minor
CATHERINE MACKINTOSH (violin) JAN SCHLAPP (viola)
Mozart Symphony No 20, in D Written and introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
Producer ROY TIPPING