Mozart: Requiem
Schubert: Mass in G
Part of the Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society 2023 90th Anniversary Season
Add to my Calendar 18-11-2023 19:00 18-11-2023 21:00 36 Mozart: Requiem The Choral Society close their 90th Anniversary celebrations with a concert of glorious music by Mozart and Schubert. To this day mystery surrounds the circumstances under which Mozart was commissioned by a stranger to write a Requiem Mass. He died before its completion, only adding to the air of foreboding that the work so effectively evokes.Composed in less than a week the G Major Mass is an astonishingly great work of the eighteen-year-old Schubert. St Peter's Church, Sheringham DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Peter's Church
Church Street
Sheringham
Norfolk
NR26 8QS
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem in D minor, K.626
Franz Schubert – Mass no.2 in G major, D.167
Performers
Rosamund Walton – soprano
Laurence Blyth – Alto
Richard Symons – tenor
Julian Chou-Lambert – Bass
David Ballard – Conductor
Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society
Sheringham and Cromer Orchestra
Programme Note
The Choral Society close their 90th Anniversary celebrations with a concert of glorious music by Mozart and Schubert.
To this day mystery surrounds the circumstances under which Mozart was commissioned by a stranger to write a Requiem Mass. He died before its completion, only adding to the air of foreboding that the work so effectively evokes.
Composed in less than a week the G Major Mass is an astonishingly great work of the eighteen-year-old Schubert.
