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David Bates

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Soprano

Samantha Clarke

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Claudia Huckle

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Nick Pritchard

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William Thomas

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Mozart’s Requiem

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Mozart’s Requiem: Concert Various

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Hippolytus and Aricia

Dardanus

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Symphony No. 2 in D Major

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The Amorous Indies

Requiem

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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. It’s sung tonight by a cast of rising-star soloists, joined by some of the UK’s most talented young voices, the National Youth Chamber Choir. As a prelude, the concert’s first half includes a short symphony by Mozart’s contemporary Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges – the first composer of African ancestry to make waves in Europe – and a selection of dances, arias and storm-evocations drawn from operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau, the leading music-dramatist of this day.

English

Mozart’s Requiem by Rameau, Bologne Chevalier De Saint-Georges, Mozart, From (2021/2021), Conductor David Bates, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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