“Breeches Roles”

Ghazal Kazemi (mezzo-soprano) | Niels Muus (piano)

The attraction of the role of Cherubino in Mozart’s opera “Le Nozze di Figaro” is no doubt due to the compositional beauty and nuance that Mozart gave to the music. In his last opera “La Clemenza di Tito”, inspired by the murderous intrigue surrounding the Roman emperor Titus Vespasian, he also gives Sesto the most beautiful and sensitive arias. The young mezzo-soprano Ghazal Kazemi performs these classic breeches roles together with the pianist Niels Muus.

Tamás Varga (cello) | Sophie Druml (piano)

This concert evening focuses not only on the cello but also on compositions by contemporaries of great composers. Listening to works by Mozart’s contemporary Jean-Pierre Duport, you will embark on a journey into music that may sound familiar, although you may never have heard it before. The pieces are performed by the solo cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Tamás Varga, together with multiple-prize winner Sophie Druml.

"Music and Knowledge: “Father and Son”"

Jakob Kropfitsch (piano) | David Kropfitsch (violin) | Johannes Kropfitsch (piano)

This concert looks at different facets of famous father-son relationships in the music world: Leopold and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, and Johann Strauss father and son, to mention but a few. Listen to musical masterpieces with explanations by ProfessorJohannes
Kropfitsch.

"Music and Knowledge: “Concerto and Cadenza”"

Miho Fujimoto (piano) | Streich-Sextet

In a letter to his daughter of February 14 and 16, 1785, Leopold Mozart wrote of a concert by Wolfgang: “The concert was unforgettable, the orchestra admirable … then there was a new and sublime piano concerto by Wolfgang…” He was referring to the piano concerto in D minor KV 466, the first of only two piano concertos by Mozart in a minor key, which the pianist Miho Fujimoto will perform on this evening with a string sextet in an arrangement by Carl Czerny. The evening will be presented and the music explained by Professor Johannes Kropfitsch.