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 Oct. 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….