Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote mainly works in the major key. The few minor-key compositions he wrote – such as the Symphony No. 25 in G minor or the Requiem in D minor – have a particularly moving effect in their stirring drama and soulful melancholy. The NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra spans the period from the Symphony No. 25 in G minor, which Mozart wrote at the age of 17 and which for the first time leaves the cheerful path of his early work, to his famous last composition, the unfinished Requiem in D minor. Hardly any other composition by Mozart is surrounded by such myths and an aura of both magnificence and mystery as this final, unfinished work by the Viennese-by-choice composer.

Stanislav Kochanovsky, the new conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic, complements these two great “classics” with three small pieces for orchestra, the “Tre Pezzi” by the Baroque composer Girolamo Frescobaldi, which Bruno Maderna rearranged in 1952. Music that is both older and younger than Mozart’s works, and in which astonishing echoes can be found. An original, exciting concert evening.

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