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Mozart's own violins play again in the Vatican
Two violins Mozart owned are back in use for a Vatican concert, with a ten-year-old soloist on his childhood instrument.
In brief
Two violins Mozart owned are back in use for a Vatican concert, with a ten-year-old soloist on his childhood instrument. Vatican Radio airs the 45-minute 'Bella Musica' concert at 10 p.m. CET on Saturday, 12 September. Originally reported by Vaticannews.
A concert on the radio
Vatican Radio's programme Scrigno musicale airs a 45-minute recording by the 'Bella Musica' ensemble on Saturday, 12 September at 10 p.m. CET.
Mozart's own violins
Recorded in the Vatican's Sala Assunta under conductor Stefan David Hummel, the programme is built around two violins Mozart once owned and played.
Opening with Cosi fan tutte
The ensemble starts with the overture to Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte, K. 588.
A ten-year-old soloist
Shuxuan Jin, aged ten, plays the first movement of the Violin Concerto in G major, K. 216, on Mozart's childhood violin. Ida Gillesberger, 19, follows on the 'Costa' violin with K. 219.
One guitar interlude
The only piece not by Mozart is Francisco Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, a famous work for solo guitar.
Jupiter, then a hushed encore
The fourth movement of Symphony No. 41, the 'Jupiter', closes the main programme. The encore is the motet Ave verum corpus, sung by a choir drawn from the ensemble.
The short version
Vatican Radio airs the 45-minute 'Bella Musica' concert at 10 p.m. CET on Saturday, 12 September.
