Finghin Collins piano/director
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat, K449 [21’]
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 16 in D, K451 [21’]
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K453 [30’]
CELESTIAL FIELDS
FINGHIN COLLINS CONTINUES HIS JOURNEY INTO THE VERY HEART OF MOZART’S SENSE
OF HIMSELF as a composer with three of the six piano concertos he composed in 1784. Operatically intense, the dark and melancholic 14th ushered in a period of astonishing maturity and innovation,
Mozart describing the 16th, which echoes Haydn and revels in ingenuity of the most entertaining kind, as a work ‘to make the performer sweat’. The 17th, one of the wittiest and richest of all his piano concertos, delightfully evokes ‘celestial fields where the flocks of gods go grazing’.
Soundings, 7pm
Guest Talk
UCD Choral Scholar Director Desmond Earley on Mozart and his travels
Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
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