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Making the most of Mozart

From the archive, first published Friday 19th Mar 2004.

THE London Mozart Players will be at The Anvil in Basingstoke on Thursday, April 22, with conductor and pianist Stephen Kovacevich.

Mozart wrote his 25th Symphony at the age of 17 and, despite his young age, this was an important work displaying many features of his mature style, including the use of four horns to rich and powerful effect.

Following Beethoven's First Piano Concerto, another young work yet full of confidence and drama, is a marked contrast in Brahms' Third Symphony, written when he was 50. His experienced hand guides the piece from a surging opening to a tranquil conclusion.

Stephen Kovacevich was born in Los Angeles and made his debut at the age of 11. At the age of 18 he moved to England, where he now lives, to study with Dame Myra Hess.

Although he is famous as a pianist, he has also built up an extensive career as a conductor.

The Independent wrote of him in 2002: "Perhaps nobody else can play the piano with this degree of precision and turn it to such musically intense ends."

Tickets for the concert, priced from £13 to £28.50, are available from the box office on 01256 844244, the website www.theanvil.org.uk or the ticket fax 01256 366900.

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