Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Mozart/Salieri

A musical rivalry and friendship comes alive with Mozart’s Jeunehomme Concerto with pianist Hoang Pham and Salieri’s La Veneziana symphony.

About the concert

Program

Antonio Salieri Don Chisciotte : Overture

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto in E flat, K271 Jeunehomme

Louisa Trewartha New Work for double bass and string orchestra

Antonio Salieri Sinfonia in D La Veneziana

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No.28 in C, K200

As any script writer or gossip magazine editor will tell you, a rivalry is much more entertaining than a friendship. So it is with the two composers Mozart and Salieri, whose relationship was mostly warm and collegial, despite film portrayals to the contrary.

On the Mozart side, the lighthearted Symphony No.28, and the Jeunehomme concerto, performed with one of Australia’s leading pianists, Hoang Pham. On the Salieri side, an Australian premiere of an opera overture and his La Veneziana symphony.

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra will also premiere an intriguing MCO commission by Victorian composer Louisa Trewartha, for double bass and string orchestra. MCO Principal Bass Emma Sullivan performs the solo.e Chamber