Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Mozart & Haydn: A Tale of Two Cities September 23, 2011

R.J. Kelley is "dazzling!" - San Francisco Chronicle

The season's opening concert is devoted to works by Mozart and Haydn with links to specific cities: Mozart's "Prague" Symphony, composed in 1786 as a gift to the city that, more than any other city, loved him; and Haydn's Symphony No. 98, one of his so-called "London" symphonies, composed on his first trip there in 1792.

The program also includes a "new" work by Mozart, a reconstruction (by Robert Levin) of his Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in E-flat major, performed by Philharmonia Baroque principal horn R.J. Kelley, using fragments from the first movement, as well as a recently-discovered score for the last movement.

Nicholas McGegan, conductor
R. J. Kelley, horn

MOZART: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504, "Prague"

MOZART: Concerto pasticcio for Horn in E-flat Major, K. 370b/495/371
R. J. Kelley, horn

BECK: Overture from La mort d'Orphee
HAYDN: Symphony No. 98 in B-flat Major, H. I.98

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