NCCO presents a Mozart Birthday Celebration featuring Daniel Hope and Sebastian Knauer
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704-2201 USA
8:00 PM, Thursday, January 25, 2018
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All works tonight by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), in celebration of his 262nd Birthday!
[8:02 PM lights down, welcome by Philip Wilder, band out]
[8:05 PM words about the program from Daniel Hope]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K.488 (1786), featuring Sebastian Knauer
[8:38 PM tuning]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K.216 (1775) featuring Daniel Hope
[9:24 PM lights down, band entrance & tuning]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K.201/186a (1774)
Knauer was fine in his role as opening soloist, but honestly, I wasn't really all there … the piece passed in one ear and out the other like a nice bit of chamber fluff.
In the next work, Daniel Hope turned in a truly nifty cadenza at the end of the first movement, and an equally interesting, if less fiery, one at the end of the second movement. Way cool! Those woke me out of my daze!
Still feeling pretty low from this year's bout with the flu/cold – sat through this show in a sort of daze, hoping I wouldn't burst out in an uncontrollable fit of coughing. Didn't figure out until the start of the second set that tonight's show only had one more piece programmed – without my glasses, I'd concatenated tonight's program onto tomorrow's, and thought we were less than half done at that point. What a dummy, eh?
Of course, it didn't help my confusion that the printed program had a typo, indicating that Knauer would be playing on K.201, but there was no piano onstage when the lights dimmed to start the second set. Hoy hoy! Whassa matta wit youze guys?
Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!
Lou Fancher posted a nice promo article at SFCV.
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