Classical notes: Upcoming Tucson concerts you shouldn’t miss | Music

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The Hermitage Piano Trio – from left cellist Sergey Antonov, violinist Misha Keyli and pianist Ilya Kazantsev – play a concert for Arizona Friends of Chamber Music.

Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

When we think of Mozart, we usually hear his light, playful melodies in the depths of our memories.

This is what makes his 40th Symphony in G minor so fascinating.

The 26-minute symphony, one of only two that he wrote in minor, has flashes of fear and darkness that are particularly pronounced at the beginning.

“When you hear the symphony, you recognize it immediately, but you hear something that feels bigger and more important,” said José Luis Gomez, music director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, who will perform the orchestra on Saturday, November 40th will conduct 6th and Sunday 7th November at Catalina Foothills High School.

Gomez programmed Mozart’s 40th on the heels of the orchestra, which played its 41st symphony “Jupiter” last month as part of its Classics series. The two symphonies are among the three that Mozart composed in 1788 and the last that he wrote before his death in 1791.

“It’s one of those symphonies that you never tire of hearing,” said Gomez.

Mozart wrote two symphonies in the key of G minor – the contemplative and complex 40.

The 40 starts out as if it’s getting the last word on the 39th Symphony with a flurry of violas going from fast to slower.

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