Johannesburg Mozart Festival Programme

Mozart Festival

Lovers of clas­sical music will be glad to know that the pro­gramme line up for the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival has been announced. So here is just a little taste of what you can expect from 23 January to 9 February 2010.

Originally organ­ised in 2006 in cel­eb­ra­tion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 250^th birth­day anniversary this year’s fest­ival will see almost 20 per­form­ances in vari­ous ven­ues around Johannesburg ...

The first of 4 full scale sym­phony con­certs is the open­ing of the fest­ival at the Linder Auditorium (20h00). The Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, con­duc­ted by Richard Cock, per­forms Mozart’s Overture from Abduction from the Seraglio and Clarinet Concerto in A major as well as Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor.

Mozart Festival

If you enjoy the works of Wolf and Schumann the head down to Northwards House on Sunday 24 January at 18h00 where Dietrich Henschel will be accom­pan­ied by Florian Uhlig on the piano for a song recital.

On Wednesday 27 January the Linder Auditorium will once again be filled with won­der­ful melod­ies with some of South Africa’s finest musi­cians per­form­ing on stage. Florian and Dietrich are joined by the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, under Thomas Sanderlings baton, per­form­ing Moerane’s Fatse La Heso, Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor and Hartman’s Song of the four winds.

The fol­low­ing even­ing, Thursday 28 January, is the when cham­ber musi­cian fans can relax and be enter­tained by first of 4 cham­ber con­certs dur­ing the fest­ival. Taking place at Northwards House some favour­ite works by Mozart, Nielsen and Schumann will be per­formed. The second cham­ber con­cert takes place on Friday 29 January when viol­in­ist, Lidia Baich, is joined by pian­ist, Matthias Fletzberger, to per­form Sonatas by Marx, Beethoven, Prokofiev and Mozart. With the third sym­phony orches­tra per­form­ance on Saturday 30 January.

Mozart Festival

A hus­band and wife duo, Nina Schumann and Louise Magalhães, take to the stage on Sunday 31 January with the fest­ivals first piano recital with works from Debussy, Stravinsky and Ravel. With the final piano recital of the fest­ival being per­formed by Florian Uhlig on Thursday 4 February, he will be play­ing Mozart’s Fantasy in C major as well as a num­ber of other pieces.

If you’re look­ing for some­thing a little dif­fer­ent then the final sym­phony per­form­ance should be just what you’re look­ing for. Titled “Rock me, Amadeus” this per­form­ance has many sur­prises and is con­duc­ted by Richard Dickens.

This is only some of the fant­astic music you will be able to listen to through­out the fest­ival. There are also choral con­certs, out­reach and devel­op­ment con­certs and workshops.

Get Tickets:
Tickets for per­form­ances at the Linder Auditorium are avail­able via Computicket, while tick­ets for per­form­ances at Northwards House are avail­able from Caroline on tele­phone +27 (0)11 447‑9264.

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