Orchestre des Champs-Élysées / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe

The magic power of music

The history of how the Mozart Requiem came to be written is often told as a story full of mysterious references, nocturnal messengers and mystic premonitions. The legends surrounding the composition of this magnificent work, where Death himself is said to have taken the pen from Mozart’s hand, are in all likelihood nothing but fairy tales, but this doesn’t really matter once you have heard this moving music performed in concert.