Viennese “Sturm und Drang”
Maurice Steger, Christoph Croisé & Il Pomo d'Oro
Orchestral Concert
Sunday, 9 August 2020
6 pm, Saanen Church
The 1770s saw the emancipation in the Germanic world of a current that was to set fire to much of Europe: the Sturm und Drang, literally “storm and passion”. It was named in retrospect after a play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger written in 1776, and its most famous expression is Goethe's Werther. Considered to be a precursor of Romanticism, it differs from Empfindsamkeit – whose footsteps it follows – by its desire to inscribe and channel these emotional impulses into a stricter form. Centered on the iconic figures of this movement in Vienna, Haydn and Mozart, this programme conceived by the ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro takes us on a journey from the beginnings (with Vivaldi and Wagenseil) to the culmination (with the very rare Heberle) of this genuine artistic tidal wave.
Maurice Steger, Recorder & Conductor
Christoph Croisé, Cello
Il Pomo d'Oro (baroque orchestra)
| Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777) | |
| Symphony in G Minor, WV 418 | 14' |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) | |
| Sonata in E Minor for Flute ans Basso continuo, WQ 124 | 8' |
| Carlo Monza (1735-1801) | |
| Sinfonia in D Major “La tempesta di mare” from the opera “Iphigenia in Tauride” | 5' |
| Anton Heberle (ca. 1780-ca. 1806-1816) | |
| Concertino in E-flat Major for Recorder and Orchestra | 14' |
| — interval — | |
| Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) | |
| Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1 | 25' |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | |
| String Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” | 18' |
| 110' | |
| CHF 125/105/65/40 |