Name: ECO @ Wells - Mozart and Haydn Masses
Start: 2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Wells Cathedral

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English Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Jeremy Cole

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Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society

Soprano

Elizabeth Atherton

Mezzo-soprano

Helen Charlston

Alto

Tenor

James Oxley

Bass

Grant Doyle

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ECO @ Wells - Mozart and Haydn Masses

Wells

United Kingdom

Wells Cathedral

ECO @ Wells - Mozart and Haydn Masses: Requiem, K. 626 Mozart (+1 More)

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Requiem

Theresienmesse

Jnanakumar P

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‘Didn’t I tell you that I composed the Requiem for myself?’ Mozart may (or may not) have spoken those words on his death bed, but his choral masterpiece, the Requiem, commissioned by a mysterious cloaked figure, certainly offers a transfiguring experience. Written in the last month of Mozart’s life, it contrasts the fear of death with radiant hope and balances dark drama with sublime simplicity.

The Mass in B♭ major by Joseph Haydn is known under the name “Theresienmesse.” The reason for this epithet has to this day not been clarified, but it could have to do with a performance of this Mass in Vienna in May 1800, probably in the presence of the Empress Marie Therese. It is an extraordinarily beautiful work with fugues, arias, florid bel canto lines, and dramatic contrasts

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