Name: Mozart's Gran Partita
Start: 2024-05-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Severance Hall

Organization

Conductor

Franz Welser-Möst

Instrumentalist

Leila Josefowicz

Violin

Trina Struble

Harp

Orchestra

Cleveland Orchestra

Mozart's Gran Partita

Cleveland

United States

Severance Hall

Mandel Concert Hall

Public

Tristan and Isolde

Concerto for Violin and Harp

Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, K 361/370a

Anna-Maria Gkouni

Approved

Known to contemporary audiences through the movie Amadeus, Mozart’s Serenade for winds was taken from obscurity to immortality as Salieri is transfixed by his introduction to the composer’s music: 

“On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse, bassoons, and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly, high above it, an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the very voice of God.” — from Amadeus

Performed as part of the 2024 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble