March 7, 2005

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20
Carol Barnet celebrates the 100th birthday of the Minnesota Capitol Building with a welcoming fanfare in its premiere performance. Robert Levin explores Mozart's powerful D-minor Piano Concerto, doing as Mozart would have done: playing continuo in the tuttis, inserting embellishments, and improvising his own cadenzas. Plus theater music by Schubert from the operetta The Conspirators and the play Rosamunde, and a fine but forgotten symphony by a violinist-composer who was concertmaster at the premiere of Beethoven's First, Paul Wranitzky of Vienna. Nicholas McGegan conducts.

Music: CAROL BARNETT: Capitol Overture WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor, K. 466 (1785) FRANZ SCHUBERT: The Conspirators Overture FRANZ WRANITZKY: Symphony in D, Op. 36 Nicholas McGegan, conductor Robert Levin, piano