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Wire magazine lead me to the music of Gloria Caotes.

Gloria Coates: Symphony No.15, "Homage to Mozart



Gloria Coates (*1938): Symphony No.15, "Homage to Mozart", per grande orchestra (2004/2005).

1. Iridescenses
2. Puzzle Canon
3. What Are Stars?

Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien diretta da Michael Boder.
Registrazione live effettuata a Vienna il 16.6.2006.

Symphony no.15:

"A commission for the Passau Festival the Mozart year, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Ave Verum Corpus is one of my favorite Mozart melodies, which I used in the second movement. It is played backwards and then heard canonically towards towards the end of Movement 2.
Mozart died shortly after composing Ave Verum Corpus. This tragedy is expressed in Movement 3."
(Gloria Coates).

Cover image: fortepiano Erard, primi '800.

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