Piano Quintet Plus Haydn 77

Featured as part of the Mozart and More Series

Saturday April 4, 2009 7:30PM

Franciscan Center
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Chelsea Tipton, II, conductor

Description:

Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds is scored for a chamber instrumentation, but is almost a miniature concerto for the piano. Though it lasts only twenty-five minutes, Mozart was exceedingly fond of the piece, going so far as to describe it to his father as the "best thing I have so far written in my life."

Chelsea Tipton, II, the Toledo Symphony's Resident Conductor, closes our sixty-fifth anniversary season with Franz Schubert's Sixth Symphony in C Major. It is known as the 'Little' Symphony, only to distinguish it from the composer's hour-long Ninth Symphony, the 'Great,' which is also in C Major. In fact, the Sixth uses more instruments than his Fifth Symphony, and is of equal length to the majority of Schubert's symphonies. Inspired by the compositions of Gioacchino Rossini, Schubert uses Rossini's light orchestrations and joyous effervescence to create one of his most attractive and appealing compositions. He even includes a long Rossini crescendo in the fourth movement as a tribute to the Italian master.

Program:

Haydn Symphony No. 77 *

Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major 26'

                       Valrie Kantorski, piano
                         Kimberly Bryden, oboe       Georg Klaas, clarinet
                          Gabriel Bergeron-Langlois, bassoon
                                      Sandra Clark, horn

INTERMISSON

Schubert Symphony No. 6 in C Major 27'

The Haydn and Mozart pieces will be performed conductorless.