Easter and Holy Week concerts

REQUIEM in D minor K. 626
Tenor – Soprano – Alto – Bass
show starts at 20:30

The Requiem was commissioned from Mozart by an unknown character in the summer of 1791 while he was busy composing the "Magic Flute" Singpiel with a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. Accepting the assignment, he began the composition with enthusiasm which he never managed to complete, in fact he will die a few months later on the same day on which he finished the Confutatis maledictis on December 5, 1791. The completion was entrusted by his wife to Franz Xaver Sussmayr, pupil and friend of Mozart.

STABAT MATER by G.B. Pergolesi
Soprano – Mezzo-soprano
show starts at 20:30

G.B. Pergolesi's Stabat Mater is his last work, his masterpiece completed shortly before his death at the age of only 26. Defined by Vincenzo Bellini as "The Poem of Pain" the Stabat Mater is a sacred composition based on the text of a prayer by Jacopone da Todi from the 13th century, addressed to the Virgin Mary mother of Jesus Christ.
Pergolesi through his music wants to represent the strength of a mother and the absolute pain in the face of the death of her son.

Program and cast

REQUIEM in D minor K. 626
I INTROITUS REQUIEM aeternam
II Kirie
III SEQUENTIA
DIES IRAE
Tuba mirum
Rex tremendae
Record
Refutatis
Tearful
IV OFFERTORIUM
Domine Jesus
Hostias
V SANCTUS
VI BENEDICTUS
VII AGNUS DEI
VIII COMMUNICATION
Lux aeterna

STABAT MATER by G.B. Pergolesi
( Jesi 1710 – Pozzuoli 1736 )
Stabat mater Dolorosa (Soprano – Mezzo-soprano)
Quae moerebat et dolebat (Soprano) Allegro
Quis est homo (Soprano – Mezzosoprano) Largo, Allegro
Fac ut portem Christi mortem (Mezzo-soprano) Largo
When corpus morietur (Soprano – Mezzosoprano) Largo assai, Presto assai