Royal Northern Sinfonia Explore the Real Mozart

As part of a season-long exploration of Mozart, uncovering the real genius and the musical world he occupied, Royal Northern Sinfonia celebrate the young talent of the 18^th century and today, as they perform the remarkable works of the young composer as well as invite the gifted performers from Sage Gateshead’s Centre for Advanced Training for a more unusual number... It’s not often you hear a kazoo or a toy trumpet alongside a chamber orchestra. However, at 3pm on Sunday 11 October at Sage Gateshead, this is exactly what will happen as a number of musicians from Royal Northern Sinfonia alongside teenage talents from Sage Gateshead’s own young performers put down their mastered instruments for something a little more light-hearted. The Toy Symphony, often ascribed to Wolfgang Amadeus’s father in spite of toys being thrown out of the pram over the authorship from musicologists over the centuries, involves a chamber orchestra, toy instruments and singers. It features as part of the chamber orchestra’s My Mozart Matinee, where orchestra Leader Bradley Creswick introduces the composer’s formative works, as well as those that inspired him and that he inspired. The concert will feature Mozart’s First Symphony, a work composed when he was merely 9 years old, the instrumental music from Thamos, King of Egypt as well as Ibert’s Hommage à Mozart.