Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester d-Moll KV 466, für Klavier, Flöte, Streichquartett und Kontrabass bearbeitet von Carl Czerny

Intermission

Antonín Dvořák
Streichquintett G-Dur op. 77sowie Werke von Lera Auerbach

Chamber music is one of the great joys of life for our orchestral musicians. Here they meet up with Lera Auerbach, the composer, pianist and visual artist to whom a ‘Creative Portrait’ is dedicated this season. She will play Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, first performed in 1785, in a version with string quintet. As the orchestra plays the role of a partner to the solo instrument in this concerto far more than in earlier representatives of the genre, K. 466 is probably a particularly good choice for such an arrangement! 

Antonín Dvořák wrote three string quintets - but only included the double bass in the middle one from 1875, thus providing an additional foundation. Czech folk music, dreamy passages and ‘dance melodies carried by shimmering sonorities’ - anyone who loves the composer's string serenade will also like this quintet. The programme also includes compositions by Lera Auerbach, which are yet to be announced.