Created for the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center, Narrator Bill Barclay guides the audience through Mozart’s dynamic emotions through the year 1791, the year of the composer’s untimely death at age 35.
Brisking us along European capitals, between famous gatherings and his inevitable exhaustion, the speaker brings us behind the program through Mozart’s touching correspondence. This program – grand in Mozartean scale yet poignant in the man’s fragility, intimately connects us to the most fertile period of the most febrile mind in musical history.
W.A. Mozart:
Die Zauberflöte – Overture
Per questa bella mano – Concert Aria
La Clemenza di Tito – Overture
Clarinet Concerto in A
Kleine Freimaurer-Kantate
Requiem (unfinished version)
Ave verum corpus
1791: Mozart’s Last Year was created by Bill Barclay and conductor Gianandrea Noseda.
