Mozart / Beethoven
For his debut with the OPRL, the renowned Dutch conductor Ton Koopman moves between the final brilliance of Viennese Classicism and the promises of a new world. With his “Jupiter” Symphony (1788), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart brings architectural clarity, intricate melodic interplay, and the Enlightenment ideal of harmony to its ultimate point of balance. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 (1803), while still rooted in this tradition, shifts its foundations: rhythmic complexity, heightened dynamic contrasts, and the primacy of expressive drive foreshadow a modernity based on energy, tension, and the assertion of subjectivity. Romanticism is on the way…
Programme
MOZART, Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 2
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