From Mozart to Wagner: Mysticism and Wonder

Item details

Date

Saturday, Apr 18, 2026 7:30PM

Location

Powell Hall

Name

From Mozart to Wagner - Mysticism and Wonder

Description

📍 This concert takes place at Powell Hall
🕒 2 hours (including intermission)

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Jan Lisiecki, piano (SLSO debut)

Richard Wagner Prelude to Act I from Lohengrin
W.A. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9, K. 271, “Jeunehomme”
Samy Moussa Elysium (First SLSO performances)
Ottorino Respighi Church Windows

Jan Lisiecki, “perhaps the most ‘complete’ pianist of his age” (BBC Music Magazine), performs one of Mozart’s spellbinding piano concertos at the center of a deeply spiritual program that muses on the interplay of shadow and light. Returning to the SLSO podium, Hannu Lintu leads the orchestra through Wagner’s shimmering melodies, inspired by a holy relic; Samy Moussa’s visionary expression of timelessness and paradise in Elysium; and the mysticism and wonder of Respighi’s Church Windows.

A few things to know:

• Jan Lisiecki first signed an exclusive contract with the Deutsche Grammophon label at the age of 15. In 2020 the label released a live recording of all five Beethoven concertos from Konzerthaus Berlin, with Lisiecki leading the Academy of St Martin in the Fields from the piano.
• Respighi’s Church Windows first began as a collection of three individual piano preludes inspired by Gregorian chant melodies. Through orchestration and elaboration, plus the addition of a fourth movement, the version performed today has become one of Respighi’s most popular orchestral works.
• In Greek mythology, Elysium (also known as the Elysian Fields) was a place of eternal paradise after death, reserved for heroes and those favored by the gods. The term is also used today to describe a state of bliss or euphoria.

Notes

https://slso.org/event/from-mozart-to-wagner-mysticism-and-wonder/