Compiled from the Performing Arts programmes* and Visual Arts exhibition records from HKADC’s Arts Yearbooks and Annual Arts Survey projects dating from 2010.

Jaap’s Gran Partita

Music

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Art Genres / Sub-categories

Western Instrumental Music

Location

Hong Kong City Hall, Concert Hall

Start Date

2014/03/28

End Date

2014/03/29

Art Genres / Sub-categories

Western Instrumental Music

Location

Hong Kong City Hall, Concert Hall

Start Date

2014/03/28

End Date

2014/03/29

Jaap’s Gran Partita

Description

Description

In Peter Schaffer’s play Amadeus, the composer Salieri tries to describe Mozart’s Gran Partita, “This was a music I’d never heard… It seemed to me that I was hearing the very voice of God.” Jaap van Zweden has chosen the Gran Partita, putting the wind virtuosi of the HK Phil centre stage. Alongside this great chamber work, Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, featuring the string section of the HK Phil, the composer’s heartfelt tribute to the victims of fascism and of war. 

Organiser / Presenter Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Performing / Production Unit Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer:Shostakovich
Repertoire:Chamber Symphony, op. 110a (orch. Barshai)

Composer:Mozart
Repertoire:Serenade in B flat, K361, Gran Partita

Conductor:Jaap van Zweden

Note:This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Classical Music Yearbook 2014" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).

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Lowest Price

$160

Highest Price

$480

Indoor / Outdoor

Indoor

Local / Non-local Production

Local

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