Aurora Orchestra & Imogen Cooper: Beethoven and Mozart at Concertgebouw + 3 course dinner

About the Event

Chamber orchestra Aurora plays Beethoven's majestic Fifth symphony without sheet music, introduced by conductor Nicholas Collon. Pianist Imogen Cooper is the sole sole solemn composer in Mozart's Piano concert no. 25.

Aurora Orchestra in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Back for overwhelming success: the British Aurora Orchestra. An initiative of conductor Nicholas Collon, the award‐winning head of the Residence Orchestra. With chamber orchestra Aurora he does everything very differently. Out of mind, for example. Or rather 'by heart'. The orchestra plays Beethoven's majestic Fifth Symphony without sheet music. What does this mean you win? Musicians who make the composition their own, merge with it. They literally have the work in their hands. Prior to the Fifth Symphony Collon tells us what touches him so much about Beethoven's masterpiece.

Imogen Cooper plays Mozart

Soloist with the Aurora Orchestra is the English pianist Imogen Cooper. Like no other she knows how to balance passion and lyricism, according to The Telegraph. Today she does so in Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 25. A contrasting work in which Mozart pushes both orchestra and soloist to great heights. The Rheinische Post praised the humour in which she approaches the final. Great art.