15TH CITV SEASON CONTINUES ON NOVEMBER 10TH WITH FIRST AREA PERFORMANCES OF MOZART AND MENDELSSOHN WORKS - The Berkshire Edge
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15TH CITV SEASON CONTINUES ON NOVEMBER 10TH WITH FIRST AREA PERFORMANCES OF MOZART AND MENDELSSOHN WORKS

November 10 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

$25

Continuing its 15th Anniversary Season on Sunday, November 10th, Concerts in the Village offers first area performances of significant works by two major composers: Mozart’s cantata Davide penitente and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1 in C Minor. Performing will be CITV’s resident ensembles, the Broad Street Orchestra and Broad Street Chorale, joined by soloists Robin Steitz, Paulina Swierczek and Jun Yang. Artistic Director David Smith will conduct.

Mozart’s colorful Davide penitente, K. 469 of 1785 is unique among his 600-plus works in that eight of its ten movements derive from the composer’s earlier Great Mass in C minor, but with an entirely different Psalm-related text in Italian. Two brilliantly operatic arias for soprano and tenor were written specifically for this cantata. Throughout Davide penitente the solo and choral writing is memorably virtuosic, immediately engaging the listener with dramatic extremes. This performance is believed to be a first in upstate New York.

Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1, Op. 11 was written in 1824, barely a month after the famously precocious composer’s 15th birthday. Dedicated to his beloved and very musical sister Fanny, it is by far the least known of Mendelssohn’s five symphonies. Although creatively imaginative and immediately recognizable as by no one else, the work’s energetic, often impetuous writing does recall Mozart and Beethoven, including the latter’s own C Minor Symphony, the very well-known Symphony No. 5. Mendelssohn’s other four symphonies are frequently performed, especially Nos. 3 and 4. However, opportunities to hear his first symphony are rare. As in the case of the afternoon’s Mozart cantata, this performance is believed to be a first in upstate New York.

Two of the concert’s three Mozart soloists, sopranos Robin Steitz and Paulina Swierczek, have been honored as Tanglewood Vocal Fellows and previously featured in CITV concerts, Ms. Steitz in Bach’s solo Cantata 51 and Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and Ms. Swierczek in Mozart’s Requiem and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater.

For this concert, CITV welcomes Korean-American Tenor Jun Yang in his debut appearance. Originally from New York City and praised for his “mesmerizing liquid voice,” Mr. Yang is a recent graduate of Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

Suggested contribution $ 25, with students and children free. Handicapped accessible.

Kinderhook Reformed Church: 21 Broad Street (US Route 9), Kinderhook NY 12106.

For further information visit www.concertsinthevillage.org and follow CITV on Facebook.

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Date:
November 10
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cost:
$25
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.concertsinthevillage.org/

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