Friday, October 27,  8.00PM           
Sunday, October 29,  3.00PM
Symphony Hall 

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Enjoy the beautiful melodies and virtuoso flourishes of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with Grant Llewellyn and one of the world's great performers on period clarinet, Handel and Haydn's own Eric Hoeprich. One of the last pieces Mozart wrote, at the height of his maturity, the Clarinet Concerto is the first concerto by a major composer for the relatively new instrument.

A decade later, Beethoven's first two symphonies, written at the turn into the nineteenth century, became the last pillars of the Classical symphonic style. They show Beethoven, who we rightly view as a Romantic composer, as also a complete master of the high Classical style. With his Third Symphony Beethoven would help begin the Romantic tradition. The First Symphony's third movement, Menuetto, is notable for its brilliance and modulations reaching far past the work's key of C Major. The Second Symphony, in D Major, has the spirit of a military march, dynamic energy, sensuousness, and previously untried orchestral color: It is the most cheerful of all Beethoven's symphonies.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Eric Hoeprich, basset clarinet

For further information:
http://www.lucare.com/Immortal
On Beethoven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven
Wikipedia entry on Beethoven.

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mozart.html
Grove Concise Dictionary biography of Mozart.

http://www.Mozartproject.org/index.html