W. A. Mozart – Requiem

The Requiem Mass K 626 in D minor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's last
unfinished work, represents a labyrinth of contradictions and mysteries that over
time has divided historians and musicologists, fueling conjectures and igniting
passions.
Mozart completed only the Introit: Requiem aeternam, and wrote the main parts
of the opera, indicating the melodic motif of the accompaniment from time to
time. Kyrie, Sequentia (with the Lacrimosa which stops after the first eight bars)
and the Offertorium arrived at this stage.
After Mozart's death, his wife Constanze delegated the completion of the
Requiem to her husband's three pupils, in order to get closer to the original
intentions of the work, but only Franz Xaver Süssmayr continued the work,
homogeneously rearranging the work of the previous collaborators and
completing the totally missing passages of the manuscript.
From the very first notes there is a sense of anguish, it is as if the author was
afraid of death and judgment and it is as if it were already present

Program and cast

W. A. MOZART
Ave Verum Corpus K 618 in D major
Requiem in D minor K 626
Lorenzo Macri, Director/Conductor
ROMAN VOCAL ACADEMY CHOIR
&
CITY OF ROME SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA