Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K 551 (W. A. Mozart)
I. Allegro vivace; C major
II. Andante Cantabile; F major
III. Menuetto, Allegretto
IV. Molto Allegro
Vicente Chamber Orchestra
Zain Khan: Conductor
Recorded live on October 8, 2022 at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage, Santa Monica, California.
Camera and Sound: Nicholas Casillas
Video Editor: Kirk Hunter
Editor: Jakub Hlávka
** About the Symphony **
Without any known commission to compose them—although there might have been plans to bring them to London on a tour that never happened—and with their author in humiliating circumstances, Mozart’s last three symphonies were created, miraculously, within a brief period in the summer of 1788. The present work, no hurler of thunderbolts in spite of the nickname—which Mozart had no part in fastening to it—represents a definitive, artful manipulation of congenial but not really striking materials. The composer blazed no new paths in this symphony, and certainly did not give any indication that a symphony number 42 would be more advanced than 41. What he did accomplish with awesome aplomb was to gather his strengths and create a work that, in its fulfillment of the highest ideals of classical symphonism, stands on the loftiest possible plane….