Beethoven: Overture, Egmont
Weber: Bassoon Concerto in F major
Weber: Clarinet Concerto in F minor
Mozart: Symphony No 25 in G minor

Pablo González - Conductor
Peter Whelan - Bassoon
Maximiliano Martín - Clarinet

A perfect curtain-raiser to the festive season. High spirits, brilliant comedy and jawdropping virtuosity are the essence of Weber’s concertos: a man of the theatre, he certainly knew how to entertain and thrill. Beethoven had no time at all for him, but had to eat his words when Weber wrote the most successful and influential opera of the decade. Egmont belongs to an utterly different kind of Romanticism: dark, heroic and stormy.

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