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From an unfinished portrait of Mozart by Joseph LangeThe Mostly Mozart Festival on WNYC
Evening Music host Terrance McKnight is joined by Performance Today's Fred Child for this live broadcast of the Mostly Mozart Festival's opening program at Avery Fisher Hall. Led by conductor Louis Langrée, the concert features Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and a rare chamber version of Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (The Song of the Earth), arranged in part by Arnold Schoenberg for strings, winds, piano, percussion and harmonium. This broadcast was a coproduction of American Public Media, Lincoln Center, and NPR Music.
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Opening Program - Live Broadcast
Hosted by Terrance McKnight and Fred Child.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
Intermission Feature
Gustav Mahler: "Das Lied von der Erde" ("The Song of the Earth," arranged for chamber orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn)
Anna Larson, soprano
Paul Groves, tenor
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor
The Passion of Kaija Saariaho
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho joins Terrance McKnight to discuss her role as composer-in-residence for the Mostly Mozart Festival, and sheds light on her powerful stage work "La Passion de Simone" (The Passion of Simone). Written for soprano Dawn Upshaw and directed by Peter Sellars, "La Passion de Simone" also features the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (in that organization's Mostly Mozart debut), and the renowned choral group London Voices.
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