Concert Review: The Youth Movement

Jan Lisiecki plays Mozart in Philadelphia.
by Paul J. Pelkonen

Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Photo by Jessica Griffin © 2014 The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Everyone (well, almost everyone) likes Mozart. That's the rationale behind the Philadelphia Orchestra's three-concert mini-festival by the  at Verizon Hall, A Mozart Celebration. On Friday afternoon, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the second of these performances, featuring a traditional concert format: opera overture, piano concerto and one of the late Mozart symphonies.. On display: the sparkle and clarity of this famous orchestra and the prodigal ability of pianist Jan Lisiecki.