Vienna Mozart Orchestra – 2011 German Festival at Mecklenburg and Pomerania-Occidental – North German Radio –
Over to Eastern Germany via Madrid this week to the Mecklenburg and Pomerania-Occidental Music Festival from June 13, 2011 featuring the Vienna Mozart Orchestra with Charlotte Balzereit, harp – Matthias Schorn, clarinet and David Seidel, bassoon.
Opening with Divertimento Number 1 by Leo Weiner – followed by Dances for Harp and Orchestra by Debussy, with Charlotte Balzereit, harp – after that, the Strauss Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon featuring Matthias Schorn, clarinet and David Seidel, bassoon. Next is Dvorak’s Serenade Opus 22 and ending the concert with An Die Musik by Schubert.
The Vienna Mozart Orchestra, consisting of 30 musicians, was founded in 1986 and since then has focused on the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the more than 30 years of its existence, the orchestra has been able to establish itself as an integral part of the musical summer program of the city of Vienna.
The concert series “Viennese Mozart Concerts in Historical Costumes” is particularly well known, which takes place every year from May to the end of October with four to six concerts a week in the Golden Hall in the Musikverein building, in the Vienna State Opera and in the Great Hall in the Vienna Concert Hall .
On the occasion of the millennium celebrations in 1996, 10 open-air concerts were held on the millennium stage in front of Schönbrunn Palace in co-production with KlangBogen Wien . Another participation took place as part of the Carinthian Summer in Ossiach in August 1997 under the direction of the Vienna Philharmonic Ernst Ottensamer .
In June 1996, the orchestra performed at a gala event hosted by the Chase Manhattan Bank in the Vienna Hofburg .
Leó Weiner (16 April 1885 – 13 September 1960) was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and composer. The early Romantics from Beethoven through Mendelssohn most strongly influenced Weiner’s compositional style. His orchestration seems much indebted to later Romantic French composers not notably affected by Wagner, Bizet in particular. This conservative Romantic approach formed the basis of his style, to which elements of Hungarian folk music were added sometime later, although he was not an active field researcher of folk music as were his contemporaries Bartók and Kodály, but simply shared an interest in the subject and added elements of folk music into his established harmonic language without significantly changing it.
Among other notable compositions of Leo Weiner are a string trio, three string quartets, two violin sonatas, five divertimenti for orchestra, a symphonic poem, and numerous chamber and piano pieces.
Enjoy the concert.
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