Harrogate Choral Society: 'Magical Mozart' at St Wilfrid's Church, Harrogate on Saturday 22nd March 2025

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Harrogate Choral Society: 'Magical Mozart'

Add to my Calendar 22-03-2025 15:00 22-03-2025 17:00 36 Harrogate Choral Society: 'Magical Mozart' A concert starring Mozart’s much loved Requiem and Ave Verum Corpus.  Of the more than 600 works written by Mozart none is shrouded in more mystery than the Requiem, which was unfinished when he died. How much of the music did he write himself? Did he know who commissioned the work? Did he write a Mass for the dead for himself? None of this really matters when you listen to the music as there is nothing quite like it To accompany these Harrogate Choral will also be performing Rory Wainwright Johnson’s A Glimpse of the Light - a piece written as a partner for Mozart’s Requiem, the composer states that as he is not a religious person he wanted to offer a slightly different, more worldly approach to the concept of imagining an ‘afterlife’ that tied in more secular or natural themes.  The choir will also be singing Da Pacem Domine by Arvo Pärt a work commissioned for a peace concert in Barcelona in 2004. St Wilfrid's Church, Harrogate DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Wilfrid's Church
Duchy Road
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG1 2EY
England

Saturday 22nd March 2025
3:00 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem in D minor, K.626
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ave verum corpus, K.618
Rory Wainwright Johnston – A Glimpse of the Light
Arvo Pärt – Da pacem Domine

Performers

Sarah Fox – soprano
Heather Jill Burns – mezzo-soprano
Austin Gunn – tenor
Andri Björn Róbertsson – Bass Baritone

National Festival Orchestra
Harrogate Choral Society

Programme Note

A concert starring Mozart’s much loved Requiem and Ave Verum Corpus. Of the more than 600 works written by Mozart none is shrouded in more mystery than the Requiem, which was unfinished when he died. How much of the music did he write himself? Did he know who commissioned the work? Did he write a Mass for the dead for himself? None of this really matters when you listen to the music as there is nothing quite like it

To accompany these Harrogate Choral will also be performing Rory Wainwright Johnson’s A Glimpse of the Light - a piece written as a partner for Mozart’s Requiem, the composer states that as he is not a religious person he wanted to offer a slightly different, more worldly approach to the concept of imagining an ‘afterlife’ that tied in more secular or natural themes. The choir will also be singing Da Pacem Domine by Arvo Pärt a work commissioned for a peace concert in Barcelona in 2004.

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