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2015-02-11 20:00 2015-02-12 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Biss & Mozart

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/7722

You’ll recognize the Andante from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, praised by his biographer Maynard Solomon as “an entire movement of unrelieved, time-stopping beauty.” The Baltimore Sun called Jonathan Biss’s performance of the concerto “exquisite… exhilarating… infectious in its high spirits.” Brahms’s First Symphony concludes the concert on a dramatic note: from the stirring C-minor pulse opening to the brilliance of the C...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
February 11 - 12, 2015
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Jonathan Biss © Benjamin Ealovega

You’ll recognize the Andante from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, praised by his biographer Maynard Solomon as “an entire movement of unrelieved, time-stopping beauty.” The Baltimore Sun called Jonathan Biss’s performance of the concerto “exquisite… exhilarating… infectious in its high spirits.”

Brahms’s First Symphony concludes the concert on a dramatic note: from the stirring C-minor pulse opening to the brilliance of the C major horn calls in the Allegro, it’s easy to hear why this masterpiece propelled him into the ranks of the greatest symphonic masters.

Post-concert talkback: Ask questions directly to conductors, soloists and other special guests. With Paul Wells.

In partnership with Winterlude, the Capital's winter celebration.