The New Zealand Herald Premier Series: Mozart's Jupiter

Conductor Leo Hussain
Recorder Genevieve Lacey
Auckland Philharmonia

Tchaikovsky Suite No.4 ‘Mozartiana’
Elena Kats-Chernin Re-inventions (after Bach)
Purcell (trans. George Benjamin) Three Consorts
Mozart Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’

In a programme designed to pay tribute to musical predecessors, the evening opens with Tchaikovsky’s sentimental tribute to the composer he worshipped and culminates in Mozart’s Jupiter — his last and greatest symphony.

Working with the astonishing recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey, Elena Kats-Chernin radically reshaped Bach’s Two-Part Inventions and one even became ‘a kind of mysterious tango’. George Benjamin’s transcription of Purcell’s work honours the man who ‘changed my path as a composer’.