Gabetta, Tilling & Antonini: Haydn, Kraus & Mozart

About the Event

The Orchestre de Paris passes the baton to Giovanni Antonini, a specialist in historical interpretation. His program is that of a connoisseur, demonstrating the hidden radiance of a little‐known compositional master.

Though we tend to think we know the Classical repertoire, Joseph Martin Kraus remains an unfamiliar figure for most of us; C.P.E. Bach wrote of him, though: “Kraus promises to become one of the greatest in our musical world. I prefer him to Mozart in many respects.” Kraus did not share Mozart’s posterity, but the two were destined to share an almost identical trajectory: both were born in 1756, and Kraus died in 1792—a scant few months after Mozart.

After Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with first‐time Orchestre de Paris soloist Sol Gabetta and Mozart’s lively 1774 Bassoon Concerto with principal bassoonist Giorgio Mandolesi, Antonini concludes the program with an improbably youthful work of the vivacious genius: his first completed Mass, which he wrote and conducted at the age of 12 at the imperial court in Vienna.