The 2013 Mostly Mozart Festival comes to a close in its fourth week, with more than 10 events taking place between August 19 and August 24. The final week begins with a special chamber music concert by the celebrated Emerson String Quartet, 7:00pm on August 19 at Alice Tully Hall. The ensemble, which made its first Festival appearance in 1983 and has performed nearly every season since that time, makes its highly anticipated first New York City appearance with its newest member, cellist Paul Watkins. The Emerson String Quartet will add to the Festival’s overarching focus on Beethoven by performing all three of Beethoven’s famed “Razumovsky” Quartets: String Quartet in F major, Op. 59; String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59; and String Quartet in C major, Op. 59.
The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra offers two programs at Avery Fisher Hall during the concluding week, starting with a two-concert series featuring the renowned violinist and Festival favorite Joshua Bell, August 20 and 21, each at 8:00pm. Bell returns to the Festival with Tchaikovsky’s lyrical and lush Violin Concerto, led by Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée. This concert also features one of Mozart’s great symphonic works, Symphony No. 36 in C major, K.425 (“Linz”), inspired by the city of the same name in Austria. Prior to these concerts is a pre-concert recital with pianist Francesco Piemontesi, performing selections from Debussy’s Préludes
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