Mozart’s Jupiter by Heart – UK Tour

Join us around the UK for a joyful programme that journeys from intimate nostalgia to blazing celebration, culminating in a memorised performance of Mozart’s mighty Jupiter Symphony.

We think of Mozart and Beethoven as belonging to separate musical eras, but Beethoven’s first piano concerto, and Mozart’s last, grandest symphony were written only seven years apart. Beethoven’s concerto, with its wit, elegance and joie de vivre, calls to mind the age of Mozart and Haydn that he was about to leave behind.

As for the ‘Jupiter’ symphony (presented here from memory), it’s a majestic work fizzing with so many ideas that Mozart seems barely able to fit them all in. And for an energetic opening: Jessie Montgomery’s joyful work for strings drawing on American folk idioms and the spirit of the dance.

Benjamin Grosvenor will not perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at our performance in Harrogate. Instead, Tom Poster will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12.