THE MOZART EFFECT

The term the Mozart Effect, which we use as the name of this concert, dates from 1993, when Dr Frances Rauscher published in Nature her study claiming that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music could enhance certain mental skills in children (including unborn ones). Her thesis was comprehensively criticised and to this day has not been proved or disproved; we use her term to describe the effect of Mozart’s music on the human brain and psychology. Generally, it is nonetheless true that making and listening to music develops cognitive abilities, has a beneficial effect on the psyche, helps in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases and, surprisingly enough, helps to suppress epileptic fits. The influence of music on our mood is perhaps the most common effect we observe in everyday life. The Mozart Effect concert is therefore not just for children and expectant parents, but will be enjoyed by all lovers of the most classic of classics.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART A Little Night Music

LEOPOLD KOŽELUH Clarinet Concerto No.2 in E-flat major

ANTONIO VIVALDI Spring from The Four Seasons

JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 49 „La passione“

Emil Drápela clarinet

Marie Petříková violin

Filharmonie Brno

presenter Michaela Kulísková

conductor Jiří Habart

Program ke stažení zde.