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Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart

Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 14, 2021

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Music

Original Title

Salzburger Festspiele 2021: Teodor Currentzis und musicAeterna spielen Mozart

Production Companies

Unitel, ZDF

Director

Michael Beyer

Description

At the Salzburg Festival 2021, the musicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis performed the last symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – No. 40 K. 550 and No. 41 K. 551 Jupiter. The two pinnacles of Mozart’s symphonic heritage are interconnected: the classic wrote symphonies No. 39–41 in one short period of just a few fruitful weeks in 1788. In the concert the two symphonies – the two sides of Mozart’s unfathomable genius – are joined by works that are close to them both in spirit and the time of creation: the orchestral Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, the recitative and aria of Donna Anna from the finale of the opera Don Giovanni and the chorus from the spiritual cantata Davide penitente created in 1785.