Mozart’s Gran Partita is a Serenade for thirteen instruments: twelve winds and double bass. The work in seven movements became world-famous far beyond the borders of classical music through Miloš Forman’s film Amadeus: Antonio Salieri’s first encounter with Mozart takes place at a performance of the Gran Partita. Igor Stravinsky’s highly original Octet combines woodwind and brass instruments. The three-movement composition, premiered in 1923 in Paris, is considered an important work in Stravinsky’s neoclassical style. Conducted by Zubin Mehta the Boulez Ensemble performs in the concentrated studio-like atmosphere of the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. PROGRAM: Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments; Mozart: Serenade “Gran Partita”
Zubin Mehta conducts Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schönberg was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and the “father” of musical Modernism. “Brilliant idea, just my kind of thing,” he noted in his diary, after hearing of the actress Albertine Zehme’s plans to set poems from Albert Giraud’s Pierrot lunaire to music. Each of the 21 miniatures has its own sound colour by the instruments employed: flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello. Under the among them Mojca Erdmann, Daniel and Michael Barenboim, perform in the concentrated studio-like atmosphere of the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.