MOZART - BEETHOVEN yMAS - OCTAVIO CHOY

Our program presents Mozart's Violin Concerto #5, the last of the five concertos composed by Mozart in 1775, when he was 19 years old. The concert is nicknamed "The Turkish" because its last movement is a Rondo "alla Turca" , a new innovation popularized in the operas in that time.

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS concludes the series with the music of CESAR FRANCK, presenting his

SYMPHONY IN D MINOR.

229 MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents some of Franck's piano music and some sacred music.

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS begins a short series with the music of French composer CESAR FRANCK, presenting Joshua Bell in Franck's violin sonata

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS presents EDWARD GRIEG's piano concerto. Inspired by Robert Schumann's piano concerto, Grieg produces a similar intense and beautiful concerto.

Saint Saens Symphony #3 is nicknamed the "Organ Symphony" because of the significant use of the organ in the piece. Saint Saens was an accomplished Organist, thus the especial use of the instrument.

In today's program, we will hear CAMILLE SAINT SAENS CONCERTO FOR CELLO #1, and other cello pieces including THE SWAN.

 SAINT SAENS composed three concertos for violin and orchestra, as well as two other orchestral pieces for the violin. In today's program, we would listen to the violinist JOSHUA BELL in the Violin Concerto #3

 The prolific French composer Camille Saint Saens composed five concertos for piano and orchestra, of which we would listen to the Second with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

 Confronting a difficult time in his life where he even contemplated suicide, Beethoven produces his happiest symphony.