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Saturday 1 March 2008, 7.30pm
Mozart Serenade No.10 in B flat for 13 winds, K361 'Gran Partita' * 44' HALLÉ FIRST | BRITISH
Stravinsky The Firebird (1910) complete 45'
Mark Elder conductor • Rory Macdonald conductor*
Mozart and Stravinsky make a surprisingly good match. Both were expert orchestrators. Both were disciplined artists with a wild streak. It is one of Mark Elder's artistic traditions to share one of his concerts with the Hallé's Assistant Conductor and in this programme, Rory Macdonald takes on the considerable challenge of Mozart's 'Gran Partita'. Mozart's longest instrumental composition and one of his richest, the 'Gran Partita' is a work of enormous scope and virtuosity. It ranges from cheerfulness to rapturous song, where plaintive melodies are intertwined by oboe and clarinet soloists. Stravinsky wrote his ballet score The Firebird at the same age (27), though whereas - by that stage in his life - Mozart was a fully mature composer with hundreds of works behind him, Stravinsky was just starting out. But what a start! The Firebird has all the sorcery, expressiveness and colour of 19th-century Russia and Russians, with a flash of genius entirely its own.
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