December 2015 Programme

Vesperae Solennes De Confessore, K 339 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Dixit Dominus

Confitebor Tibi Domine

Beatus Vir

Laudate Pueri

Laudate Dominum

Magnificat

Interval

Requiem, K 626 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I. Introitus

Requiem Aeternum

II. Kyrie Eleison

III. Sequenz

Dies Irae

Tuba Mirum

Rex Tremendae

Recordare

Confutatis

Lacrimosa

IV. Offertorium

Domine Jesu Christe

Hostias

V. Sanctus

VI. Benedictus

VII. Agnus Dei

VIII. Communio

Lux Aeterna

“Displace a single note and there would be diminishment,
displace a single phrase and the structure would fall.”

Words spoken by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825, the Austrian Imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824), in begrudging admiration of Mozart, in Peter Schaffer’s play Amadeus