BBC Philharmonic: Mozart/Mark Simpson/Mahler
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Idomeneo (Overture)(24 mins)
Three arias and march
Mark Simpson
Clarinet Concerto(20 mins)
world premiere
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 4 in G major(56 mins)
Performers
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon
conductor
Mark Simpson
clarinet
Elizabeth Watts
soprano
The prodigiously talented Mark Simpson is the only person to have won both the BBC Young Musician and BBC Young Composer of the Year awards. Tonight, both of Simpson’s parallel musical lives are on show, as the BBC Philharmonic’s Composer in Association gives the world premiere of his own Clarinet Concerto.
Tonight’s other soloist, leading British soprano Elizabeth Watts, is on double duty: tackling three Mozart arias to open the programme, then returning to end the season with Mahler’s soulful but uplifting Fourth Symphony.