Payare Conducts Mozart’s Moving Requiem 2024-2025
The dramatic intensity and emotional candour expressed in Mozart’s Requiem are part of the fascination this work continues to arouse, more than 200 years after its first performance.
Mozart Festival
The dramatic intensity and emotional candour expressed in Mozart’s Requiem contribute to the fascination this work continues to arouse more than 200 years after it was written. Bach similarly approaches the theme of death through an aura of contemplative humanism in the motet Jesu, meine Freude, in which a serene vision of the afterlife is offered. The genius of both Bach and Mozart will be celebrated by the Orchestra and the OSM Chorus. Mozart Festival
Artists
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Rafael Payare, conductor
Myriam Leblanc, soprano
Julie Boulianne, mezzo-soprano
Robert Gleadow, bass
Jean-Willy Kunz, OSM organist-in-residence
OSM Chorus
Andrew Megill, chorus master
The chorusmaster chair is generously sponsored by Mrs. Ann Birks, in loving memory of Barry Drummond Birks.
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 (12 min.)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Jesu, meine Freude, Motet, BWV 227 (21 min.)
Intermission (20 min)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (48 min.)