Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mozart

Repertoire classics with a top line-up: the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle return to the Grand Hall with Mozart’s last three symphonies. »It’s amazing when you put these three works together in the space of the same evening,« says Sir Simon Rattle. »So many extreme human emotions are packed in. This music is deeply emotional and passionate and dark and dangerous and cheerful like no other music that has ever been written.« Composed within a period of just one year, the three symphonies are an inexhaustible musical mystery. »No commission, no immediate intention« prompted Mozart to write them. Instead, they are an »appeal to eternity,« as the first Mozart biographer Alfred Einstein conjectures.

Often regarded as a triad of works, the Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 and 41 are genuine pinnacles of classical symphonic music, in which the composer yet again showcased the full range of his artistic mastery: from the lightheartedness of the E flat major symphony, to the stormy urgency of the G minor symphony, to the radiant C major splendour of the final symphony, better known as the »Jupiter« Symphony.

Sir Simon Rattle, one of the biggest stars in the classical music world, conducts the sprightly Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Hamburg. Famous for his interpretations, which are as concentrated as they are passionate, the beloved Brit has caused an international sensation with his Mozart recordings.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

conductor Sir Simon Rattle

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony in E-flat major, KV 543
Symphony in G minor, KV 550

– Interval –

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony in C major, KV 551 »Jupiter«