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Performance on 3: The Genius of Mozart: Episode 1: Philharmonia Baroque All-Mozart Programme

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Episode 1: Philharmonia Baroque All-Mozart Programme

The Genius of Mozart

Philharmonia Baroque All-Mozart Programme

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The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 and Symphony No 41.

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Mozart: Incidental music to Thamos, Konig in Aegypten; Piano Concerto No 20; Symphony No 41 (Jupiter).

Petroc Trelawny introduces an all-Mozart concert recorded at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco featuring the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, one of America's finest period instrument ensembles. The concert opens with incidental music written for the play Thamos, King of Egypt, one of the composer's early forays into music for the theatre. The fortepiano supremo Robert Levin joins the orchestra for the innovative Piano Concerto in D minor and also plays the concerto movement only recently attributed to a seven-year old-Mozart. The programme concludes with Mozart's majestic final symphony, the 'Jupiter'. Nicholas McGegan conducts.

Mozart: Incidental music to Thamos, Konig in Aegypten, K.345
Mozart: Piano concerto no.20 in D minor, K.466
Mozart: Concerto movement in G (Nannerl's Music Book)
Mozart: Symphony no.41 in C, K.551 'Jupiter'

Robert Levin (fortepiano)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
conductor Nicholas McGegan.

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