Mozart Requiem & Clarinet Concerto at The Anvil, Basingstoke on Saturday 10th February 2024

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Mozart Requiem & Clarinet Concerto

Add to my Calendar 10-02-2024 19:30 10-02-2024 21:30 36 Mozart Requiem & Clarinet Concerto Mozart composed two of his greatest works during the last months of his short life. His hauntingly beautiful Requiem was commissioned by a stranger and unfinished at the composer’s death. His pupil Franz Süßmayr’s first ‘completion’ has been challenged by scholars, and in this concert the Royal Choral Society will perform the version by Mozart scholar Franz Beyer. Whichever edition performers use, the entirety of the work in all cases reveals the full scope of Mozart’s genius and depth of expression up to his very last days. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto – his final orchestral work, and arguably the greatest concerto written for any wind instrument – is full of rapturous melody and intense harmony. Composed for his friend Anton Stadler, the work showcases the profoundly expressive range of this instrument, especially in the sublime second movement. Mozart himself said of Stadler’s playing ‘nobody with a heart could resist it’. Clarinettist James Burke will be emulating his predecessor in this glorious work.   The concert opens with Haydn’s stirring motet Insanae et vanae curae. This is the first visit to The Anvil by the Royal Choral Society. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, formed by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958, has an enviable international reputation for its distinctive and refined sound, showcased by the orchestra’s performance on the soundtrack to the Oscar-winning film about Mozart, Amadeus The Anvil, Basingstoke DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Anvil
Churchill Way East
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 7QR
England

Saturday 10th February 2024
7:30 PM

Programme

Joseph Haydn – Insanae et vanae curae
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem in D minor, K.626

Performers

Richard Cooke – Conductor
Ana Beard Fernández – soprano
Rebecca Afonwy Jones – mezzo-soprano
Robin Bailey – tenor
William Gaunt – Bass
James Burke – clarinet

Royal Choral Society
Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Programme Note

Mozart composed two of his greatest works during the last months of his short life. His hauntingly beautiful Requiem was commissioned by a stranger and unfinished at the composer’s death. His pupil Franz Süßmayr’s first ‘completion’ has been challenged by scholars, and in this concert the Royal Choral Society will perform the version by Mozart scholar Franz Beyer. Whichever edition performers use, the entirety of the work in all cases reveals the full scope of Mozart’s genius and depth of expression up to his very last days.

Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto – his final orchestral work, and arguably the greatest concerto written for any wind instrument – is full of rapturous melody and intense harmony. Composed for his friend Anton Stadler, the work showcases the profoundly expressive range of this instrument, especially in the sublime second movement. Mozart himself said of Stadler’s playing ‘nobody with a heart could resist it’. Clarinettist James Burke will be emulating his predecessor in this glorious work.

The concert opens with Haydn’s stirring motet Insanae et vanae curae. This is the first visit to The Anvil by the Royal Choral Society. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, formed by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958, has an enviable international reputation for its distinctive and refined sound, showcased by the orchestra’s performance on the soundtrack to the Oscar-winning film about Mozart, Amadeus

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