Early Music Vancouver: Mozart String Trios

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Cost: $15.00
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Pre-concert talk at 12:15PM

In April 1782, young Mozart wrote to his father Leopold: ‘Every Sunday at 12 o’clock I go to the Baron van Swieten’s, where nothing is played but Bach and Handel. I am currently making myself a collection of Bach fugues…’. In the Baron’s library, Mozart discovered a treasure trove of music by these two already-forgotten composers. Commissioned by the Baron to make arrangements for strings of Bach’s music for his Sunday matinees, Mozart in some cases added his own preludes. Mozart’s Eb Major Divertimento, written shortly after his final three symphonies, belies its title: it is hardly an ‘entertainment’, but a substantial and complex six-movement composition that was described by Mozart biographer Alfred Einstein as “one of his noblest works.”

“Marc Destrubé is an outstanding soloist… of remarkable virtuosity.” – The Georgia Straight

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Divertimento for violin, viola & cello in E flat major, K. 563

Allegro
Adagio
Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio
Andante
Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio I – Trio II (34:18)
Allegro
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