Barokorkest La Stagione Frankfurt - Michael Schneider - Christoph Prégardien

There is a world of difference between Mozart's Symphony in D (K133), composed in Salzburg in 1772, and the Symphony in C (K425) written eleven years later. The first is a perfect summary of the best characteristics of Mozart's symphonic style during the early 1770s: an extremely passionate, dynamic and skilled style of writing for orchestras - with numerous references to the music of the Mannheimer Schule - coupled with an obvious predilection for the lilting style of Johann Christian Bach and a well-developed sense of effective and unusual orchestration, such as in the delicate andante. Also striking is the extremely mature minuet. The dimensions and emotional scale are exponentially increased in the 'Linz' Symphony, composed over the course of a few days in the town of Linz where Mozart stopped on his way back to Vienna from Salzburg in 1783. The work is one of the most perfect examples of the classical symphony, in terms of dimensions and total structure as well as the forms used. The aria 'Aura che intorni spiri' is one of Mozart's eleven concert arias for tenor, a repertoire that - compared to the soprano arias - is not often heard in concert. The same is true of the operas by Joseph Haydn, of which 'L'Anima del Filosofo' from 1791 is the last. This will be the ideal opportunity to once again hear the captivatingly beautiful voice of Christoph Prégardien.