Mozart and Beethoven: concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on Sunday 7th November 2021

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Mozart and Beethoven

concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Part of the The Wilderness Pleases - 2021 Season

Add to my Calendar 07-11-2021 19:00 07-11-2021 21:00 36 Mozart and Beethoven   ‘The Wilderness Pleases’ is inspired by one of the many influential pieces of work to come out of the Enlightenment era; Shaftesbury’s ‘The Moralists.’ In the book, the main character Theocles describes the terror of encountering a group of crocodiles in an Egyptian desert. After escaping the monsters, he is overcome with a desire to admire them as wondrous creatures of the natural world. He says, ‘let us fly to the vast deserts of these parts […] ghastly and hideous as they appear they want not their peculiar beauties. Wilderness pleases.’ Joined by conductor Bruno Weil, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment begin their season on 8 November with the overture from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, an iconic piece that at once captures the Enlightenment’s fascination with wisdom, reason and nature. Then follows Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ performed on period instruments to paint the full colours of the singing birds, flowing streams and violent thunderstorms that Beethoven’s audience would have experienced when the piece was first performed in 1808. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
South Bank
London
SE1 8XX
England

Sunday 7th November 2021
7:00 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute: Overture
Joseph Haydn – Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat major, Hob.I:105
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no.6 in F major 'Pastoral', Op.68

Performers

Bruno Weil – Conductor
Cecilia Bernardini – violin
Jonathan Manson – Cello
Daniel Bates – oboe
Peter Whelan – bassoon

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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Programme Note

‘The Wilderness Pleases’ is inspired by one of the many influential pieces of work to come out of the Enlightenment era; Shaftesbury’s ‘The Moralists.’

In the book, the main character Theocles describes the terror of encountering a group of crocodiles in an Egyptian desert. After escaping the monsters, he is overcome with a desire to admire them as wondrous creatures of the natural world. He says,

‘let us fly to the vast deserts of these parts […] ghastly and hideous as they appear they want not their peculiar beauties. Wilderness pleases.’

Joined by conductor Bruno Weil, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment begin their season on 8 November with the overture from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, an iconic piece that at once captures the Enlightenment’s fascination with wisdom, reason and nature. Then follows Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ performed on period instruments to paint the full colours of the singing birds, flowing streams and violent thunderstorms that Beethoven’s audience would have experienced when the piece was first performed in 1808.

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