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New Worlds: Genius

Academy of Ancient Music

,Barbican Hall
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Grandeur, poetry and pure, unstoppable genius. Laurence Cummings conducts the Academy of Ancient Music in Mozart’s Jupiter symphony. 

No composer knew how to thrill an audience quite like Mozart. ‘In my opera, you’ll find music to please every kind of ear,’ he said of Idomeneo, and the majestic ballet music with which he crowned the action is the perfect curtain-raiser for a concert that ends with his last – and some would say greatest – symphony, the Jupiter. 

It's a glorious finale to Laurence Cummings' first season as Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music too – and if you’ve never heard the Jupiter played with all the clarity and verve of a virtuoso period-instrument orchestra, you’re in for an electrifying surprise. First, though, a flourish of end-of-season fireworks as Cummings joins Mozartian extraordinaire Robert Levin and pianist Ya-Fei Chuang in a joyous triple concerto, written when Mozart was barely out of his teens. 

Tagged with: Classical music Academy of Ancient Music Multibuy - Jan-Jul 2022 Academy of Ancient Music

The performance ends at approximately 9.30pm, with a 20-minute interval.

Produced by the Academy of Ancient Music

Programme

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Overture and Ballet from Idomeneo
  •   Piano Concerto No 7 K242 á 3
  •   Symphony No 41, Jupiter

Performers

  • Academy of Ancient Music  
  • Laurence Cummings   director & harpsichord
  • Ya-Fei Chuang*   fortepiano
  • Robert Levin   tangent piano

*Unfortunately Richard Egarr has had to withdraw from this concert due to illness. Wed 22 Jun 

Pre-concert talk

6.30pm, Fountain Room

Free. Please note the change in venue from as originally advertised.

 

Digital programme

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