Mendelssohn and Mozart vie for the title of ‘youthful genius’. Mendelssohn’s astonishing Octet was written when the composer was just 16, and Mozart wrote his Sinfonia Concertante at the ripe old age of 23. Mozart displays remarkable maturity in his writing for the solo violin and viola, and the slow movement of this work contains some of his most emotionally expressive music. The first of Mozart’s extraordinary final three symphonies, completed in just six weeks in the summer of 1788, rounds off a programme of peerless masterpieces from our great friends in the Northern Sinfonia.

Leader/Director: Bradley Creswick
Viola: Michael Gerrard