Andrea Marcon & Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

What is a Classical work like that was not written by a Viennese or even an Austrian composer? We will find out on the third evening of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ferencsik season ticket, on which the superb Italian guest conductor, Andrea Marcon, who rose to global fame as the founder and leader of Venice Baroque, will first conduct Joseph Martin Kraus’s Symphony in C minor. The truth is that the composer was not born Swedish, but German,and only moved to Sweden aged 21, where he lived until his death at the age of 36. Those with their wits about them might notice that he lived almost exactly the same number of years as the composer of The Magic Flute, and it will come as even more of a surprise to learn that he was born in the same year, 1756, as his immortal contemporary. It is no wonder then that he is referred to as “the Swedish Mozart”. For the second item on the programme, the French virtuoso of Armenian descent Chouchane Siranossian will perform Haydn’s Violin Concerto in G major, while the interval will be followed by the exuberant Symphony No. 2 by the latest great master of the Viennese Classical period, Beethoven.