Mozart's Requiem, Allegri's Miserere & Mozart's Symphony No. 38.: Royal Free Music Society Choir and Hampstead Sinfonietta at St Mark's Church, London on Saturday 4th November 2017

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Mozart's Requiem, Allegri's Miserere & Mozart's Symphony No. 38.

Royal Free Music Society Choir and Hampstead Sinfonietta

Add to my Calendar 04-11-2017 19:30 04-11-2017 21:30 36 Mozart's Requiem, Allegri's Miserere & Mozart's Symphony No. 38. Doors open 7pm. Last few remaining tickets available at the door. No more online sales. Mozart’s exquisite Requiem Mass in D Minor is the highlight of an evening of dramatic music performed by the Royal Free Music Society and the Hampstead Sinfonietta. Now one of the best-loved choral works in the classical repertoire, Mozart’s Requiem has long been shrouded in mystery.  Commissioned by an anonymous patron (now believed to have been Count Franz von Walsegg), this haunting and passionate piece was left unfinished when the great composer died at the age of 35. It was completed by his pupil Süssmayr. The image of the dying composer writing a mass for his own death has become one of the most enduring and romantic images in the history of music. Allegri’s Miserere is also part of the Mozart story.  For more than a hundred years, Allegri’s sublime music could only ever be sung in the Sistine Chapel. However, Mozart visited the Sistine Chapel, heard the piece being sung, and later wrote it down from memory (though in a slightly different version from the one that is familiar to audiences today). Like Mozart’s Requiem, Allegri’s Miserere has become one of the world’s favourite pieces of choral music. The evening will also include a performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 38.  First performed in the city of Prague in 1787, the ‘Prague Symphony’ has remained one of his most popular orchestral works. Wheelchair access. St Mark's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mark's Church
Prince Albert Road
Regents Park
London
NW1 7TN
England

Saturday 4th November 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem in D minor, K.626
Gregorio Allegri – Miserere
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.38 in D major, K.504

Performers

Benjamin Wolf – Conductor
Robert Chatley – Conductor
Maud Millar – soprano
Lilly Papaioannou – mezzo-soprano
Ed Hastings – Tenor
Benjamin Seifert – Bass

Royal Free Music Society Choir
Hampstead Sinfonietta

Programme Note

Doors open 7pm. Last few remaining tickets available at the door. No more online sales.

Mozart’s exquisite Requiem Mass in D Minor is the highlight of an evening of dramatic music performed by the Royal Free Music Society and the Hampstead Sinfonietta.

Now one of the best-loved choral works in the classical repertoire, Mozart’s Requiem has long been shrouded in mystery. Commissioned by an anonymous patron (now believed to have been Count Franz von Walsegg), this haunting and passionate piece was left unfinished when the great composer died at the age of 35. It was completed by his pupil Süssmayr. The image of the dying composer writing a mass for his own death has become one of the most enduring and romantic images in the history of music.

Allegri’s Miserere is also part of the Mozart story. For more than a hundred years, Allegri’s sublime music could only ever be sung in the Sistine Chapel. However, Mozart visited the Sistine Chapel, heard the piece being sung, and later wrote it down from memory (though in a slightly different version from the one that is familiar to audiences today). Like Mozart’s Requiem, Allegri’s Miserere has become one of the world’s favourite pieces of choral music.

The evening will also include a performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 38. First performed in the city of Prague in 1787, the ‘Prague Symphony’ has remained one of his most popular orchestral works.

Wheelchair access.

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