Mozart's final symphonies performed by a conductor who treats orchestra like punk rock.
At the Salzburg Festival 2021, the musicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis performed the last symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – No. 40 K. 550 and No. 41 K. 551 Jupiter. The two pinnacles of Mozart’s symphonic heritage are interconnected: the classic wrote symphonies No. 39–41 in one short period of just a few fruitful weeks in 1788. In the concert the two symphonies – the two sides of Mozart’s unfathomable genius – are joined by works that are close to them both in spirit and the time of creation: the orchestral Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, the recitative and aria of Donna Anna from the finale of the opera Don Giovanni and the chorus from the spiritual cantata Davide penitente created in 1785.
Direction
Beyer's camera worships Currentzis's possessed conducting.
Sound
musicAeterna's gut-punch strings redefine Mozart's darkness.
Acting
Pavlova's Donna Anna aria—technically flawless, emotionally devastating.
Director
Michael Beyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Currentzis founded musicAeterna in Siberian exile, building an orchestra from musicians rejected by mainstream Russian institutions—explaining their outsider ferocity.
The Masonic Funeral Music was performed at Mozart's own funeral in 1791; Currentzis treats it as autobiography, not elegy.
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