SUBLIME NOISE “It will be generally admitted”, begins Chapter 5 of E. M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End, “that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man”. This programme prefaces Beethoven’s iconoclastic...
THE A-Z OF MOZART OPERA This entertaining whistle-stop tour of Mozart’s operas has attracted outstanding reviews. Travelling chronologically from Apollo to Zauberflöte, the programme presents an enchanting journey through Mozart’s operatic canon, beginning with...
MOZART IN LONDON The young Mozart stayed in London from April 1764 to July 1765; it was there that he composed his first symphony, aged eight, and his first concert aria, aged nine. This fascinating programme of delightful rarities explores the cosmopolitan musical...
The A-Z of Mozart Opera 1 August 2024, 4.30pm – Hofburg Zeremoniensaal, Vienna This concert is part of Martin Randall Travel’s ‘Mozart Along the Danube’ Festival, and tickets are only available as part of the package for the complete festival (28 July – 4...
STURM UND DRANG ‘Sturm und Drang’ (‘Storm and Stress’) was in its strictest sense a literary movement during the 1770s, whose general objectives were to frighten and perturb through the use of wildly subjective and emotional means of expression. Not surprisingly the...
