Das hätte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart bestimmt gefallen: Statt im Konzertsaal erklang seine Musik bei einem Wandelkonzert quer durch den Münchner Stadtteil Giesing. Veranstaltet von den Münchner Philharmonikern.
Dec 2023
Mozart, Salieri and Beethoven in Vienna
Synopsis
Oh, to have been in Vienna on today’s date in 1785! Wolfgang Mozart had just finished a new piano concerto a week earlier and quite likely performed it himself for the first time as an intermission feature at a performance of the oratorio Ester, by Karl Ditters von Ditte ... Show More
2 m
Dec 2023
Mozart's 'Requiem' premieres in Vienna
Synopsis
Wolfgang Mozart died on Dec. 5, 1791, leaving behind an unfinished Requiem Mass, commissioned anonymously by Count Franz von Walsegg, a 28-year-old Austrian nobleman who had the ignoble habit of passing off works he commissioned as his own. The Requiem was intended to be ... Show More
2 m
May 2017
10 things to change about classical concerts
Join your host, conductor Joshua Weilerstein, as he welcomes Aram Demirjian, the Music Director of the Knoxville Symphony, and Matt Szymanski, the Founder and Music Director of Phoenix, to discuss an article that roiled the classical music scene just a few years ago: Baldur Bronn ... Show More
1h 4m
Dec 2023
Mahler's Second premieres in NYC
Synopsis
At Carnegie Hall on today’s date in 1908, Gustav Mahler conducted the New York Symphony, the 200-voice Oratorio Society chorus and two vocal soloists in the American premiere of his Symphony No. 2, his Resurrection Symphony.
These days, Mahler’s Second ranks among his mo ... Show More
2 m
Oct 2015
Symphony No. 2: Desperation and Determination
Ludwig van Beethoven's Second Symphony came at a pivot point in his life. Musically, the composer moved toward the more epic, revolutionary style that would define his later symphonies. Personally, Beethoven sank into despair as his hearing loss worsened.
14m 48s