Bella Musica Mozart concert to be broadcast on Vatican Radio

Vatican Radio’s music programme, Scrigno musicale, will broadcast a 45-minute concert by the ensemble “Bella Musica” on Saturday, 12 September. The performance, conducted by Stefan David Hummel, was recorded in the Vatican’s Sala Assunta.

The concert is notable for featuring two violins once owned and played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ten-year-old soloist Shuxuan Jin will perform the first movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto in G major (K. 216) using the composer’s childhood violin. Additionally, 19-year-old Ida Gillesberger will play the third movement of the Violin Concerto in A major (K. 219) on Mozart’s “Costa” violin.

The programme includes the overture to “Così fan tutte”, Francisco Tárrega’s “Recuerdos de la Alhambra”, and the fourth movement of Mozart’s “Jupiter Symphony”. The broadcast will conclude with an encore of the motet “Ave verum corpus” performed by an ensemble choir.