Mozart's ‘Great’ C Minor Mass: London Concert Choir & Counterpoint at Cadogan Hall, London on Monday 17th October 2022

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Mozart's ‘Great’ C Minor Mass

London Concert Choir & Counterpoint

Add to my Calendar 17-10-2022 19:30 17-10-2022 21:30 36 Mozart's ‘Great’ C Minor Mass Mozart’s C minor Mass was composed as a thanksgiving for his marriage and a showcase for the talents of his wife, the soprano Constanze Weber, who was a soloist in the first performance in 1783 in Salzburg. Although what has survived is an incomplete setting of the Mass, the unfinished work is considered a masterpiece of church music, which has been described as Mozart’s ‘entirely personal coming to terms with God and his art.’ Symphony No. 36, one of the sunniest and most life-affirming of all the later symphonies, is on a grand scale. Mozart produced it at breakneck speed for a concert in the town of Linz, where he and Constanze stayed on the way home from Salzburg to Vienna. The poignant devotional motet Ave Verum Corpus (Hail, True Body) was written for the Feast of Corpus Christi in June 1791, only six months before Mozart’s death. Cadogan Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England

Monday 17th October 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ave verum corpus, K.618
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.36 in C major 'Linz', K.425
~ Interval ~
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mass in C minor, K.427/417a

Performers

Jessica Cale – soprano
Bethany Partridge – soprano
Nathan Vale – tenor
Laurence Williams – baritone
Mark Forkgen – Conductor

London Concert Choir
Counterpoint

Programme Note

Mozart’s C minor Mass was composed as a thanksgiving for his marriage and a showcase for the talents of his wife, the soprano Constanze Weber, who was a soloist in the first performance in 1783 in Salzburg. Although what has survived is an incomplete setting of the Mass, the unfinished work is considered a masterpiece of church music, which has been described as Mozart’s ‘entirely personal coming to terms with God and his art.’

Symphony No. 36, one of the sunniest and most life-affirming of all the later symphonies, is on a grand scale. Mozart produced it at breakneck speed for a concert in the town of Linz, where he and Constanze stayed on the way home from Salzburg to Vienna.

The poignant devotional motet Ave Verum Corpus (Hail, True Body) was written for the Feast of Corpus Christi in June 1791, only six months before Mozart’s death.

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