Cappella Andrea Barca / Sir András Schiff
Bach: »Triple Concerto« & Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 / Mozart: Piano Concertos in A major & B-flat major
Mozart magic and Bach bliss
When András Schiff was invited to perform all of Mozart’s piano concertos at Salzburg’s Mozartwoche in 1999, it led to the birth of a new orchestra. Schiff called that ensemble Cappella Andrea Barca – the name being a play on the founder’s name: András (Andrea) Schiff (Barca). The project orchestra quickly became a musically versatile authority – but one that still regularly returns to Mozart and his piano concertos.
Schiff the conducting pianist juxtaposes the revisited Mozart works with two polyphonic concertos by Bach, a composer whose music he has been playing to start each day for years: »Bach in the morning is balm for the soul«.
The same can, of course, also be said of Mozart’s two late piano concertos – which are, for Schiff, »truly accomplished, great and perfect«. These include the Concerto in A Major KV 488, which was composed at the same time as »Le nozze di Figaro« in 1786, and the Concerto in B Flat Major, which Mozart wrote in 1791, the year of his death.
Performers
Cappella Andrea Barca
Sir András Schiff piano and director
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A major, KV 488
– Interval –
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord, Basso continuo and Strings in A minor, BWV 1044 »Triple Concerto«
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major, KV 595
Encore:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria and a set of 30 variations
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