Mozart and Beethoven conducted by Jack Gonzalez-Harding: Barbican Sinfonia with soloists from the Royal Academy of Music at St Dunstan's Church, Mayfield on Sunday 12th October 2025

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Mozart and Beethoven conducted by Jack Gonzalez-Harding

Barbican Sinfonia with soloists from the Royal Academy of Music

Add to my Calendar 12-10-2025 19:30 12-10-2025 21:30 36 Mozart and Beethoven conducted by Jack Gonzalez-Harding A Sir Simon Rattle protege, Jack Gonzalez-Harding returns to Mayfield to conduct the Barbican Sinfonia (consisting of musicians from orchestras including the Royal Opera House and London Philharmonic) in a concert that features works by three compositional giants of the Classical and Romantic eras. Wagner composed his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his wife following the birth of their second son, Siegfried, in 1869 and some of the music from the Idyll was eventually incorporated into his later opera Siegfried. The Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major was composed almost a century earlier, in 1779, when Mozart was on a tour of Europe and it is generally considered to be his most successful foray into the concertante genre (a hybrid of symphony and concerto). Beethoven's third symphony received its first performance in 1805, although the majority of the piece had been composed two years previously. Famously, Beethoven had originally intended to dedicate the symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte (who he felt was implementing the ideals of the French Revolution) but then angrily excised the Frenchman's name from the manuscript in 1804 after learning that Napoleon had proclaimed himself Emperor.   St Dunstan's Church, Mayfield DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Dunstan's Church
High Street
Mayfield
East Sussex
TN20 6AB
England

Sunday 12th October 2025
7:30 PM

Programme

Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K.364/320d
~ Interval ~
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no.3 in E flat major 'Eroica', Op.55

Performers

Jack Gonzalez-Harding – Conductor

Barbican Sinfonia

Programme Note

A Sir Simon Rattle protege, Jack Gonzalez-Harding returns to Mayfield to conduct the Barbican Sinfonia (consisting of musicians from orchestras including the Royal Opera House and London Philharmonic) in a concert that features works by three compositional giants of the Classical and Romantic eras.

Wagner composed his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his wife following the birth of their second son, Siegfried, in 1869 and some of the music from the Idyll was eventually incorporated into his later opera Siegfried. The Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major was composed almost a century earlier, in 1779, when Mozart was on a tour of Europe and it is generally considered to be his most successful foray into the concertante genre (a hybrid of symphony and concerto). Beethoven's third symphony received its first performance in 1805, although the majority of the piece had been composed two years previously. Famously, Beethoven had originally intended to dedicate the symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte (who he felt was implementing the ideals of the French Revolution) but then angrily excised the Frenchman's name from the manuscript in 1804 after learning that Napoleon had proclaimed himself Emperor.

Mozart and Beethoven conducted by Jack Gonzalez-Harding

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