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Alexandra Palace Theatre
Alexandra Palace Way
Wood Green
London
N22 7AY
England
Tickets
Prices: £10, £14, £22, £34 + restoration levy and booking fee; students and u16s half price
Booking line: 020 8365 4343
Book Tickets
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem in D minor, K.626
Christopher Tin – Wild Swans
Christopher Tin – Sogno di Volare
Christopher Tin – Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
Jessica Curry – Echo
Performers
Jessica Cale – Soprano
Kitty Whately – mezzo-soprano
Gwilym Bowen – tenor
John Savournin – baritone
David Temple – Conductor
Crouch End Festival Chorus
London Mozart Players
Programme Note
Mozart’s cherished Requiem is intensely dramatic, with origins shrouded in mystery. Mozart received an anonymous commission for a Requiem Mass in 1791 and came to believe he was composing it for his own funeral. By the time of his death that December at the age of 35, it remained unfinished; it is widely believed that his pupil, Süssmayr, completed it but the space for doubt keeps alive the mystique. It is truly a masterpiece, with its extraordinary beauty, subtlety and profound expression touching each new generation.
The first half of the concert includes works by Christopher Tin on the theme of flight including the iconic theme Sogno di Volare from the video game Civilization, to follow Gibbons’s pristine The Silver Swan, as well as Jessica Curry’s haunting Echo, a CEFC commission dedicated to her late father.
