Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante – Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne

About this event

This concert is part of the “Sonntags um vier” series at the Kölner Philharmonie—short, moderated Sunday concerts designed for accessibility and broad appeal (age recommendation 10+). Charlotte Oelschlegel guides the audience with spoken introductions. The Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein performs throughout, with Isabelle van Keulen serving both as musical director and as soloist (violin and viola). The program opens with Grażyna Bacewicz’s Divertimento for String Orchestra, whose elegant neoclassicism carries folk energy and early hints of the tritone. Alfred Schnittke’s Moz-Art à la Haydn follows, a witty, polystylistic play with Mozart fragments and Haydn’s Farewell Symphony. The evening culminates in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, K. 364, where violin (Jacques Forestier) and viola (Isabelle van Keulen) converse as near-equals across three movements—from dreamlike poise to heartfelt lyricism and a brilliant finale.