Gran partita New York Performances

At David Geffen Hall, Louis Langrée leads the New York Philharmonic in Mozart’s “Gran partita,” the Serenade in B-flat for winds, a landmark of late-18th-century ensemble writing. Scored for pairs of winds with basses, it treats each instrument as a character, moving between courtly dance forms and long-breathed lyric lines. In New York, the piece carries a familiar resonance through the city’s wind and festival traditions, including the Mostly Mozart lineage Langrée directs. One clear strength is how its chamber scale still invites operatic attention to voice and pacing.