Moonlit Mozart

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Les Délices, from New York, performs some of the most beautiful music ever written for wind instruments, in this program of Mozart’s wind octets. The voluptuous sound of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns becomes even richer when played on period instruments with flawless ensemble playing.

In late-18th century Vienna, wind bands known as “Harmoniemusik” offered an effective – and colorful – means of presenting music in virtually any setting. Whether performing nocturnes or serenades, dance music, or even operatic or symphonic reductions, an ensemble of eight woodwinds could cover most – if not all – bases. Soaring melodies were often split between first oboe and first clarinet, inner parts were covered by other woodwinds and horns, bassoons would alternate between tenor solos and bustling bass lines, and a double bass often provided reinforcement on the low end. For Moonlit Mozart, acclaimed oboist and Les Délices Artistic Director, Debra Nagy, brings together today’s finest period-instrument wind players for an “undeniably uplifting” all-Mozart program that includes original 18th-century arrangements of selections from The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, plus Mozart’s monumental Serenade in C minor (K388).

PROGRAMME:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Selections from The Magic Flute

1. Overture arr. Joseph Heidenreich

3. Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja [Andante]

7. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön [Larghetto]

5. Du feines Täubchen nur herein [Allegro]

Serenade in Eb, KV375 

I. Allegro Maestoso

Selections from The Marriage of Figaro

Cinque…dieci arr. Debra Nagy

Non più andrai farfallone amoroso

Dove sono i bei momenti

Ecco la marcia

Interval

Selections from Don Giovanni

1. Ouvertura arr. Josef Triebensee

2. Notte e giorno a faticar

5. Là ci darem la mano

19. Gia la mensa è preparata

Serenade in C minor “Nachtmusik,” KV388

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Menuetto in canone

IV. Allegro [Tema con variazione]

Watch and listen to Les Délices with an arrangement by Mozart’s contemporary, Josef Triebensee, of la ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni