San Francisco Symphony
2009 - 2010
2/24/10 - 2/26/10
Herbert Blomstedt - conductor
Program
Mozart - Symphony No. 36, Linz
Bruckner - Symphony No. 6
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Mozart - Symphony No. 36, Linz

The elegant "Linz" symphony, one of Mozart's own favorites, was written in a whirlwind of just days and premiered to an ecstatic Viennese audience.

(Created in 5 days for Count Thum) written to compliment a noble court, and Mozart sets it in C major, a key he associated with lofty ceremony. It is a key in which the valveless trumpets of the day sounded particularly well, and so two trumpets and timpani enrich the Linz's marvelous scoring. . . For the first time in his symphonic career, Mozart begins his first movement with a slow introduction, a device Haydn used often in his symphonies. This music combines grandeur — the dotted-rhythm fanfare opening — with mystery — the winding, harmonically ambiguous lines for strings and woodwinds that follow. . . Unusually for this period, Mozart chose to retain the trumpets and drums in the Andante slow movement. . .The finale — at the Presto tempo Mozart designated as "play as fast as possible" — balances soft-dynamic graciousness with forte energy. . .Seizing on a little downward zigzagging figure — a theme Michael Steinberg colorfully describes as "like lightening in slow motion"

nstrumentation: 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings../ Source

Bruckner - Symphony No. 6

ccasionally nicknamed The Philosophical or The Philosophic, although this nickname was not given by the composer. Bruckner did remark that "die Sechste ist die Keckste" (the Sixth is the sauciest).

The symphony requires an instrumentation of one pair each flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, with four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and one tuba along with timpani and strings.

The symphony has has four movements:

1 Maestoso (A major)
Majestoso begins with a rhythmic pattern on the violins.

2. Adagio: Sehr feierlich (F major)
"a consoling complement to the fiery first movement.

3. Scherzo: Nicht schnell (A minor)
Contains a "suggestion of the Rhine music from Act III of Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung."

4. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (A major, starting A minor)

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