Photo Credit: The Knights by Shervin Lainez, Emanuel Ax by Nigel Parry

The Knights
Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director & Concertmaster
Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director & Conductor
Emanuel Ax, Piano

Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) Overture from L'amant anonyme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503

Audience favorite Emanuel Ax joins chamber orchestra The Knights in a concert of Mozart’s piano concertos and more. Piano Concerto No. 17 is a delightful piece that’s as memorable for its unusually prominent wind writing as it is for its melodic piano part. Piano Concerto No. 25 is one of Mozart’s most revered and popular concertos, blending the heroic and the humane into a whole that continues to excite. Both concertos feature particularly touching slow movements, which Ax performs with incredible insight and sensitivity. The program opens with Carnegie Hall’s first-ever performance of the overture from Saint-Georges’s L’amant anonyme. Composed in 1779, it is a brisk and energetic three-movement work that highlights the extraordinary symphonic gifts of one of Mozart’s leading contemporaries.