Viennese “Sturm und Drang”
Maurice Steger, Christoph Croisé & Il Pomo d'Oro
Orchestral Concert
Sunday, 7 August 2022
6 pm, Saanen Church
The 1770s saw the emancipation in the Germanic world of a current that was to set fire to much of Europe: the Sturm und Drang, literally “storm and passion”. It was named in retrospect after a play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger written in 1776, and its most famous expression is Goethe's Werther. Considered to be a precursor of Romanticism, it differs from Empfindsamkeit – whose footsteps it follows – by its desire to inscribe and channel these emotional impulses into a stricter form. Centered on the iconic figures of this movement in Vienna, Haydn and Mozart, this programme conceived by the ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro takes us on a journey from the beginnings (with Vivaldi and Wagenseil) to the culmination (with the very rare Heberle) of this genuine artistic tidal wave.
Maurice Steger, Recorder
Christoph Croisé, Cello
Il Pomo d'Oro (baroque orchestra)
| Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777) | |
| Symphony in G Minor, WV 418 | 15' |
| Anton Heberle (ca. 1780-ca. 1806-1816) | |
| Concertino in E-flat Major for Recorder and Orchestra | 15' |
| Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) | |
| Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1 | 25' |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | |
| “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”, String Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 | 20' |
| 80' | |
| CHF 125/105/65/40 |