Glover Conducts Mozart…and Beethoven!
Jane Glover, conductor- Sunday, October 2, 7:30 pm
- First United Methodist Church, Evanston
Ticket Prices: $60, $45, $38 - Monday, October 3, 7:30 pm
- Harris Theater, Chicago
Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30
Free pre-concert lectures by Carl Grapentine will take place before each concert. Lectures begin at 6:30 pm in the church, and at 6 pm in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Randolph Café before Harris Theater concerts.
This concert will be broadcast on WFMT on January 13, 2012.
Program
- BEETHOVEN
- Coriolan Overture
- W. A. MOZART
- Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
- BEETHOVEN
- Choral Fantasy
- Symphony No. 1 in C Major
Hear the Music
- W. A. Mozart
- “Piano Concerto #20 in D, mvt 1”
- “Piano Concerto #20 in D, mvt 2”
- “Piano Concerto #20 in D, mvt 3”
- Beethoven
- “Choral Fantasy, Op. 80”
The last time world-renowned pianist Imogen Cooper and Jane Glover shared the Music of the Baroque stage the Chicago Sun-Times called it “a heavenly match.” Cooper plays Mozart’s dramatic D Minor concerto and Beethoven’s joyous, rarely heard Choral Fantasy in gala opening concerts.
PROGRAM NOTES
Although Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven seem as though they come from very different points in history, their lives overlapped in many ways… Download pdf »
Recommended Recordings
- Beethoven, Coriolan Overture
- Claudio Abbado, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor
- Evgeny Kissin, Kremerata Baltica (EMI Classics)
- Beethoven, Choral Fantasy
- Nicholas Harnoncourt, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Warner Classics)
- Beethoven, Symphony No. 1
- Szell, Cleveland Orchestra (Sony Classical Essential Classics)
