Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Schubert’s Ninth Symphony. Sometimes it just doesn’t get any better. Both works are like glorious closing chords: splendid and all-encompassing, the grand crowning, in this case not of a composition, but of two oeuvres. Because Mozart and Schubert wrote their respective concerto and symphony at the end of their lives, at the peak of their abilities. Each delivered a musical masterpiece, a perfect composition in which innovation and tradition, expectation and surprise, exuberance and melancholy are perfectly balanced.
Great works require great performers. Enter René Jacobs and Lorenzo Coppola. In Mozart’s concerto, the Italian clarinettist opens all the registers of his instrument, literally and figuratively. With his subtle playing, he miraculously elicits the most diverse timbres from the instrument, while making the most virtuoso passages sound like child’s play.
In the ‘Great’ symphony by Schubert, René Jacobs is the star. He knows B’Rock like the back of his hand and understands exactly how to convey to the orchestra the symphony’s vitality, multilayered character and optimism.
*Only in Ludwigshafen and Genève
This production was realized with the support of the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government through Flanders Tax Shelter.
