Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Hallenberg / Fröst
»Mozart in Prag«
Tuesday
14
February
2023
18:30
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
»My Praguers understand me!«
This colloquial exclamation of Mozart's quite nicely illustrates the
composer's heartfelt attachment to the »Golden City«, where he
celebrated legendary triumphs in the last years of his life. The two
concerts of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra recall this golden age of the
genius in the metropolis of Moldavia with music that was all premiered
there. The opening with the legendary »Don Giovanni« overture, which is
said to have been played from a wet sheet at the premiere in Prague in
1787, seems almost inevitable, so hastily would Mozart have thrown it
down on paper. Two Swedish star soloists emerge from the orchestral
bracket with the darkly sparkling »Prague Symphony«: Mezzo-soprano Ann
Hallenberg and master clarinetist Martin Fröst. The two halves of the
concert proved to be cleverly intertwined by the instrumental link of
the clarinet, which entered into a virtuoso competition with the voice
immediately after the intermission.