Mozart and Beethoven conducted by Jack Gonzalez-Harding
Barbican Sinfonia with soloists from the Royal Academy of Music
Sunday 12 October 2025, 7.30pm
St. Dunstan's Church, High Street, Mayfield, TN20 6AQ
£30, £15 (age 25 and under - £5)
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A Sir Simon Rattle protege, Jack Gonzalez-Harding returns to Mayfield to conduct the Barbican Sinfonia (consisting of musicians from orchestras including the Royal Opera House and London Philharmonic) in a concert that features works by some of the compositional giants of the Classical and Romantic eras (including one of the greatest symphonies ever written).
Wagner Siegfried Idyll WWV103
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major*
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op.55 (‘Eroica’)
*featuring soloists from the Royal Academy of Music
Wagner composed his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his wife following the birth of their second son, Siegfried, in 1869 and some of the music from the Idyll was eventually incorporated into his later opera Siegfried. The Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major was composed almost a century earlier, in 1779, when Mozart was on a tour of Europe and it is generally considered to be his most successful foray into the concertante genre (a hybrid of symphony and concerto). Beethoven’s Third Symphony received its first public performance in 1805, although the majority of the piece had been composed two years previously. At the time, this composition challenged the ideas of the day concerning the symphonic form but over the following centuries it has become recognised as of one of the great symphonies. Famously, Beethoven had originally intended to dedicate the symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte (who he felt was implementing the ideals of the French Revolution) but he then angrily struck through the Frenchman’s name on the manuscript in 1804 after learning that Napoleon had proclaimed himself Emperor.
