With Mozart’s dramatic Great g Minor Symphony, Swedish conductor
Marie Rosenmir
gives us a brilliant start to the season. The young master wind player
Theo Plath
completes the joy with the bassoon concerto of the Salzburg wunderkind.
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Season opening with Mozart
The new season is opened by a Swedish conductor: Marie Rosenmir conducts Mozart’s most popular symphony. The great, austere, dramatic Symphony in G Minor, referred to as “No. 40”, has become a classical hit. 13 years earlier, as a teenager in Salzburg, Mozart wrote his Bassoon Concerto – a feat of virtuosity for an expert young wind-player like Theo Plath, ARD prizewinner and solo bassoonist in the Hesse Broadcasting Company’s symphony orchestra.
The solo bassoonist of the hr Symphony Orchestra in Frankfurt was born in Germany, and soon conquered international stages with his instrument: he feels just as much at home in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie as in London’s Wigmore Hall.
Recreation is special in many ways: consisting of musicians whose nationalities range from Japan to Venezuela, most of the members received part of their training in Graz. After its formation in 2002, the collective has played in unique halls such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt and has worked with outstanding conductors.
From a professional organist, pianist and singer to an award-winning conductor, the Swede is a regular on the podium of major Swedish orchestras such as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra or the orchestra of the Royal Swedish Opera. In 2016 she conducted at the Nobel Prize ceremony, which was broadcast live worldwide.
