Concert Details
| Title: | Jack Gonzalez-Harding conducts Mozart and Beethoven |
| Promoted by: | Mayfield Festival |
| Time: | Sunday, 12 October 2025, at 7:30pm |
| Place: | St Dunstan’s Church, Mayfield |
| Description: | 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 three compositional giants of the Classical and Romantic eras. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll WWW103 Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major* Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ‘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 performance in 1805, although the majority of the piece had been composed two years previously. Famously, Beethoven had originally intended to dedicate the symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte (who he felt was implementing the ideals of the French Revolution) but then angrily struck through the Frenchman's name on the manuscript in 1804 after learning that Napoleon had proclaimed himself Emperor. |
| Tickets: | £30 (centre), £15 (side), £5 (age 25 and under) https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/mayfieldfestival |
| Contact: | Steve Swanton |
