Symphoniker Hamburg / Shai Wosner / Harry Ogg

Strauss’s waltz is followed by Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto Op. 42, a masterpiece of contemporary music that perfectly captures the contrast between Romanticism and atonality. From the opening march-like bars that are played in unison, Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 – the »Haffner« – exudes a special glamour and celebratory mood, and that for good reason. The work is based on a serenade Mozart composed in a hurry to mark the ennoblement of Siegmund Haffner in July 1782, after a request came via Mozart’s father. And the concert comes to a close with Johann Strauss’s famous Emperor’s Waltz, whose majestic sounds produce a uniquely convivial atmosphere.