How much the world can change in a hundred years! Joseph Haydn’s unusually dramatic symphony, composed in London, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s only Clarinet Concerto — meditative and deeply moving — were both written in the same year, 1791. Although neither work lacks the brightness characteristic of the Classical era, both open the door to weightier and more profound emotions.
A century later, in 1893, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his final symphony, which came to bear the subtitle Pathétique and follows a tragically charged trajectory unusual for the genre. The soloist in Mozart’s deeply affecting concerto is the internationally acclaimed Slovenian clarinetist Darko Brlek, while the evening’s conductor is the outstanding interpreter of the Classical and Romantic repertoire, Kakhi Solomnishvili, chief conductor of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Photo: Kakhi Solomnishvili © Sophio Melikidze
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in C minor, Hob. I:95
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathétique”), Op. 74
