HAYDN AND MOZART / FBD I

JOSEPH HAYDN

Symphony No. 80 in D minor, Hob. I:80

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Alcandro, lo confesso – Non so d’onde viene, K 294

Ergo interest – Quaere superna, K 143 (73a)

Alma grande e nobil core, K 578

JOSEPH HAYDN

Scena di Berenice, Hob. XXIVa:10

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K 183

Lenka Cafourková soprano

Brno Philharmonic

conductor Alexander Liebreich

• Two of the three key figures of Viennese musical Classicism and their symphonies influenced by the Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) movement • Concert arias by the two maestros performed by the Brno soprano, Lenka Cafourková • Haydn’s Scena di Berenice with lyrics by the popular poet of the time, Pietro Metastasio (extracted from his opera libretto Antigonos, which was also set to music by Josef Mysliveček, among others) is a rousing lament by the Egyptian Princess Berenice, who bids farewell to her dying lover, Demetrio • Alexander Liebreich, a regular guest of the Brno Philharmonic, who has recently been appointed the chief conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra