Michael Rusinek & Budapest Festival Orchestra

Like the October concert in the series presenting Haydn’s and Mozart’s works, this performance will feature one of Haydn’s symphonies and a wind concerto by Mozart along with one of his final three symphonies. Leading the Budapest Festival Orchestra will be Manfred Honeck, an Austrian compatriot of the Viennese masters, who is not only an honorary conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, but, for the past more than one and a half decades, has also served as the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Michael Rusinek, first clarinetist of the American ensemble, will join the BFO to perform the solo of the clarinet concerto, Mozart’s last finished piece. Before it, Haydn’s voice as he broke free from the bonds of the Esterházy Court will be presented in one of the London Symphonies. The concert will wrap up with Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, the companion piece to the “Jupiter” and the “Great” G minor symphony, the latter also on the BFO’s program this season.