NZSO: Mozart & Beethoven

Composer John Adams and Maestro Edo de Waart enjoy both a strong friendship and an enduring musical relationship. To celebrate this and Adams’ 70th birthday, we will feature many of his most significant works throughout this season.

Shaker Loops is a piece of great minimalist architecture – a single idea exploded to encompass lightness and darkness, detail and expansiveness, wrapped in music that simply thrills.

Delicate details also abound in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s irresistible Clarinet Concerto in A major. Mozart meets his match in the playful flair of Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst. One of the best proponents of Mozart’s clarinet repertoire, as The Times suggests, ‘Until you’ve heard Martin Fröst, you really haven’t heard the clarinet’.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 – ThePastoral completes this Masterworks concert. According to Beethoven, ‘more an expression of feeling than painting’, the emotional underpins this symphony is brought to life by Maestro Edo de Waart.

Edo de Waart - Conductor
Martin Fröst - Clarinet

JOHN ADAMS - Shaker Loops
MOZART - ClarinetConcertoinA major 
BEETHOVEN - SymphonyNo.6 in F major, Pastorale

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