Mozart to your heart’s delight
View(s):The Chamber Music Society in association with Premier Sponsor, Fairway Holdings will present “All Mozart” on Wednesday October 12, at the Lionel Wendt Theatre, Colombo 07. Tickets priced between Rs. 2500 and Rs. 500 are available at the Lionel Wendt.
Mozart’s music has always been popular with the Colombo concert-going public, and the repertoire for this evening’s performance will include three of his works featuring two and four soloists. The first is the Concerto for Two Pianos (usually titled “Piano Concerto no. 10”), K. 365/316a, featuring the popular two-piano team of Ramya de Livera Perera and Soundarie David Rodrigo.It is presumed that Mozart wrote this concerto to play with his sister Maria Anna. Years later he performed it in a private concert with pupil Josepha Barbara von Auernhammer.
The second is the rarely heard Concertone, K190/186E for two solo violins and orchestra written in 1774. An ambitious work of Mozart’s 18th year, he adds an additional solo complement of oboe and cello. The two violins trade effects antiphonally in music that would not be far out of place in a Vivaldi concerto grosso, while the oboe counters with more lyrical material. Its large slow movement is distinguished, as many would say, as un-Mozartian. This will feature concertmaster Lakshman Joseph de Saram, and associate concertmaster Ursula Nelius as soloists.
The third is the well-known Serenade no. 6 for four solo strings, string ensemble and timpani, better known as “Serenata Notturna”, with assistant concertmaster Cynthia Fernando, and Sulara Nanayakkara on violin, Othman H. Majid, viola and Nilanthi Weerakoon, double bass.