Friday, 26. 8. 2011

Opening concert:

G. Tartini: Concert for Violin and Strings in A major D 96

The Choir of Salzburger Konzertgesellschaft

Church of St. George, Piran, 20:30

Conductor:

Božena Angelova - violin

Tania Oppel - soprano

Christina Kummer - alto

Willi Spuller - tenor

Nicolas Legoux - bass

Programme:

G. Tartini : Concerto per violino, archi e b.c.

Allegro
Adagio
Presto
Largo Andante

W. A. Mozart : Requiem in re minore KV 626

I. Introitus: Requiem aeternam
II. Kyrie eleison
III. Sequentia:

Dies irae
Tuba mirum
Rex tremendae
Recordare
Confutatis
Lacrimosa

IV. Offertorium:

Domine Jesu Christe
Hostias

V. Sanctus:

Sanctus Dominus
Benedictus

VI. Agnus Dei
VII. Communio:

Lux aeterna

W. A. Mozart's requiem was composed in 1791 in Vienna as the last work ever written by the great composer. That same year he had finished the Magic Flute opera and received the commission for the opera La Clemenza di Tito . The Requiem was left incomplete at the composers death. It was finished by Franz Xaver Süssmayr and delivered to count Franz von Walsseg who had commissioned the work anonymously for the anniversary of his wife's death.

Walsseg most likely intended to present the Requiem as his own composition, as he had previously done with some other works.

Mozart's Requiem is one of the most important compositions in the history of music. It is surrounded by many myths, especially about what part of the requiem was actually written by Mozart and regarding the mysterious commission of the requiem mass.

Mozart incorporated elements of sacral as well as opera music in this masterpiece. The composition vibrates with the composer's intense feelings in his final days, when he could feel death approaching.