Tuesday, May 20th, 8.30 PM at Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli
A tribute to Mozart closes the Season of Concerti del Lingotto on Tuesday, May 20th, 8.30 PM at Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre. French conductor returns at Lingotto after 11 years leading his orchestra, founded in 1982 and definitely one of the best to play baroque, classical and romantic repertoire on early instruments. Pre-concert lecture is presented by Paolo Gallarati at 6.30 PM at Sala Londra (free entry).
Marc Minkowski leading Les Musiciens du Louvre
Artistic Director of Les Musiciens du Louvre and the Ré Majeure Festival, Marc Minkowski was the General Manager of Opéra national de Bordeaux from 2016 to 2021, the Artistic Director programmed of the Mozartwoche from 2013 to 2017, and was the principal guest conductor for the Kanazawa Ensemble Orchestra in Japan. He has been invited to conduct some of the most renowned orchestras. He embarked on orchestral conducting at very young age: at 19 he founded Les Musiciens du Louvre, an ensemble specialised in Baroque by which he explored Händel, Purcell, Rameau, Haydn and Mozart and most recently Bach and Schubert also. They expand French nineteenth-century repertoire (Berlioz, Bizet, Massenet, Offenbach) and have been the first early music orchestra to come to Wiener Staatsoper and play Mozart on early instrument at Salzburg Festival.
Mozart’s last three Symphonies
Probably performed in public after the composer’s death, Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major K. 543 opens. Born together with KV 550 and KV 551 within about six weeks, the Symphony has a two-side nature: on one hand looks to the grace of the 18th century and on the other reveals the disturbances of the imminent Romanticism. Symphony No. 40 in G minor K. 550 follows. One of the most frequently performed in the Mozartian repertoire, it stands out for the unusual use of the minor key. The score represents the chronological and emotional center of the trilogy: here Mozart takes the analysis of passions already explored with KV 543, in a less reflective and more energetic way. Symphony No. 41 in C major K. 551 closes the evening. Called «Jupiter» by the London impresario Salomon because of the Olympic serenity that pervades it, the Symphony is dominated by a cathartic sense of liberation that rises above earthly sorrows to vanish in a supreme halo of light.