Mozart Requiem
Mozart’s intensely dramatic and beautifully mysterious Requiem is paired with a first half exploring flight through works by Christopher Tin, Gibbons, and Jessica Curry, including the iconic Sogno di Volare.
Programme
Gibbons The Silver Swan
Christopher Tin Wild Swans, Hope Is the Thing With Feathers, Sogno di Volare
Jessica Curry Echo
Mozart Requiem
Jessica Cale Soprano
Kitty Whately Mezzo-soprano
Gwilym Bowen Tenor
John Savournin Bass-baritone
Crouch End Festival Chorus
London Mozart Players
David Temple Conductor
Peter Jaekel Organ and keyboard
About the programme
Mozart’s cherished Requiem is intensely dramatic, with origins shrouded in mystery. Mozart received an anonymous commission for a Requiem Mass in 1791 and came to believe he was composing it for his own funeral. By the time of his death that December at the age of 35, it remained unfinished; it is widely believed that his pupil, Süssmayr, completed it but the space for doubt keeps alive the mystique. It is truly a masterpiece, with its extraordinary beauty, subtlety and profound expression touching each new generation.
The first half of the concert includes works by Christopher Tin on the theme of flight including the iconic theme Sogno di Volare from the video game Civilization, to follow Gibbons’s pristine The Silver Swan, as well as Jessica Curry’s haunting Echo, a CEFC commission dedicated to her late father.
