Piano Extra I - Mozart-Paradox

In the organizer's words:

Mozart Paradox

Thomas Enhco piano

Piano improvisations on works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the 2024/2025 season, Thomas Enhco has already explored "Transatlantic Soundscapes" together with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. And on his return, the artist once again proves himself to be an accomplished wanderer between musical worlds, as he is equally at home in jazz and the classical repertoire. And both flow into his new program "Mozart Paradox". "Mozart has been with me since I was a child," recalls Thomas Enhco, "but as a jazz musician I had never used his work to improvise, as I often did with Bach, Brahms or Schumann." And the versatile musician is now changing that with a project dedicated entirely to the work of the Salzburg wunderkind. He has put together a personal selection of popular works - including the "Lacrimosa" from the famous Requiem, the overture to the opera "Don Giovanni" and the fantastically beautiful Clarinet Concerto - in order to improvise on them with complete freedom. He wants to "look at the essence of Mozart's music through the prism of jazz" and trace the paradoxes in Mozart's emotional world: "tragedy and humor, exuberant joy and abysmal sadness, childlike mischief and reflections on death."