The Knights (Classical)

The Knights Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director and Violin Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director and Conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Audience favorite Emanuel Ax joins The Knights in a concert of Mozart’s piano concertos No. 17 and 25, and an overture by Joseph Bologne. 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 blends the heroic and the humane into a whole that continues to excite. 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.