Performer: Sebastian Knauer

The Philhamonia Zürich’s concert of great American orchestral and song music meant a magical mix of the familiar and iconic. 

In a similar vein to the previous evening’s rather German-orientated “Grosse Streichquartette” concert given by the Artemis Quartet, tonight’s mozart@augsburg concert contained Beethoven piano sonatas interspersed with recitations: a “Sea of Harmony”. It was also to be the last of the festival’s concerts that I was to experience this year.