Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 is the grandest in scale of all his concertos, augmenting a sizeable wind section with trumpets and drums, but yet perhaps one of his darkest with a threatening atmosphere reminiscent of some sections of Don Giovanni. According to Stravinsky Petrushka portrays ‘the unhappy hero of every fair in all countries, a puppet suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra.’ Legendary dancer Nijinsky brought Petrushka to life on the stage in 1911 where the burlesque moments of the ballet are represented in the ever-shifting rhythms and startling harmonic devices employed in Stravinsky’s innovative composition.
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Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 is the grandest in scale of all his concertos, augmenting a sizeable wind section with trumpets and drums, but yet perhaps one of his darkest with a threatening atmosphere reminiscent of some sections of Don Giovanni. According to Stravinsky Petrushka portrays ‘the unhappy hero of every fair in all countries, a puppet suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra.’ Legendary dancer Nijinsky brought Petrushka to life on the stage in 1911 where the burlesque moments of the ballet are represented in the ever-shifting rhythms and startling harmonic devices employed in Stravinsky’s innovative composition.
Tickets: £26 £24 £20 £15 £11 £7
Read Martyn Brabbins' biography
Read Noriko Ogawa's biography






