Mozart's musical legacy has taken some odd twists over the years but none so bizarre as Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke's Moz-Art a la Haydn.
It begins on a blacked-out stage with 12 string musicians walking on to take their places.
During the course of the show, the stage is brightly lit and the musicians move closer together, before finally filing off without a musical conclusion and with the stage in darkness.
The music comes from lost fragments by Mozart given a 20th-Century hardness. The audience received it well, apart from one member who was so upset he booed.
Thankfully, the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Barry Wordsworth resumed its normal high-performance playing for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 and Chopin's Variations On La Ci Deram La Mano from Don Giovanni and a long, somewhat tedious rendition of Tchaikovsky's fourth orchestral suite Mozartiana.
An unusual but colourful evening.
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