Symphonischer Chor Hamburg / Elbipolis
Mozart
Mozart’s secret
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s unfinished Mass in C Minor of 1782 is one of the best known and most beautiful mass settings in music history. The stylistically diverse work continues to fascinate experts to this day: it’s amazing that Mozart wrote a major sacred work for Salzburg after having long made a name for himself in Vienna as an opera composer and piano virtuoso. After all, he had firmly turned his back to the city of his birth a year previously. However, the more important issue from a musical point of view is why Mozart did not complete the work and in what form it should be performed today.
After numerous unsatisfactory reconstructions, some well-researched and convincing completions of the lost passages have been available for some years now. The Symphonische Chor Hamburg and the Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg, along with a number of exceptional vocal soloists, now perform one of these well-reconstructed versions of Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor in the Laeiszhalle.
Performers
Symphonischer Chor Hamburg
Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg
Elisabeth Breuer soprano
Sophie Harmsen alto
Ilker Arcayürek tenor
Sönke Tams Freier bass
director Matthias Janz
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Offertorium »Inter natos mulierum« KV 72
Se al labbro mio non credi KV 295 / Arie für Tenor
Per questa bella mano / Arie für Bass mit obligatem Kontrabass KV 612
Misero! O sogno – Aura, che intorno spiri KV 431
Regina coeli KV 108
– Interval –
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Große Messe c-Moll KV 427