Your events at Classical Events
Details
St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Cosi fan tutte: Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.31 in D major 'Paris', K.297/300a
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ch'io mi scordi di te?, K.505
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mass in C minor: Et in carnatus est
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat major 'Le Jeunehomme', K.271
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio, K.418
Performers
Jane Glover – Conductor
Jennifer France – soprano
Lauren Zhang – piano
London Mozart Players
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
To mark the London Mozart Players’ seventieth year, a concert to celebrate Mozart – and his women!
Mozart composed several works to celebrate or commemorate the various women who touched his life. ‘Mozart’s women’ included French piano virtuoso Victoire Jeunehomme, who would have performed K.271; his first love, soprano Aloysia Weber, for whom Mozart wrote the ravishing ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio’ (which reaches a top E); Aloysia’s sister Constanze, who became Mozart’s wife and for whom he composed the soprano part of his Mass in C Minor; and English soprano Nancy Storace, the inspiration for ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te?’ (which includes a solo piano). Not forgetting Mozart’s mother, Maria, who accompanied Mozart through Europe in 1778, sadly dying shortly after the performance of K.297 – the ‘Paris’ Symphony, and his sister Maria Anna – ‘Nannerl’.
The icing on the London Mozart Players’ 70th birthday cake is the return of Jane Glover as conductor for this celebratory concert at St John’s Smith Square. Jane was the first female Artistic Director of any orchestra when she joined the LMP in 1984, and she also celebrates her 70th birthday in 2019. Soprano Jennifer France and 2018 Young Musician of the Year Lauren Zhang join the orchestra for an evening of sublime music performed with virtuoso brilliance.
