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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Aurora Orchestra serve up an over-the-top confection at Purcell Room in Southbank Centre. 

This was the first time I've been to a concert with a 10:30 kick-off, but then this was the first of its kind. Nor did the inaugural Sport Prom turn out to be merely a game of two halves...

Even if the joke is good, it’s all in the telling, as they say. Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spaß (“A Musical Joke”) is good, but it probably meant more to its contemporaries than it does to us today. It is Mozart’s satire of the incompetent composers, musicians and copyists of his time. It’s an inside joke, for all practical purposes.

Allerlei Parodistisches sowie Subversives, das die Schranken zwischen Alltagswelt und Kunst niederreißt, macht dem Salzburger Festspielpublikum sowie exzellenten Solisten der Camerata Salzburg viel Spaß.

Mozarts Musik und die Lesung einiger seiner Briefe wurden zu einer gelungenen Symbiose aus Humor und Heiterkeit, garniert mit einen Schuss Melancholie.