Dresden Philharmonic / Dresdner Kreuzchor / Martin Lehmann

• Opera

What would have happened if Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had had time to complete his Requiem? What worlds might have opened up to us if the then 35-year-old had not been carried off in 1791 by the »severe miliary fever« – a diagnosis that has not been clearly identified to this day? Now his last, most mysterious and existential work has remained a fragment – albeit skilfully completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr. It is only logical that the world-famous Dresdner Kreuzchor (boys’ choir) understands the fragmentary nature of the Requiem as a quality and sets it with works by a contemporary composer who is known for his deeply spiritual attitude like almost no other: Arvo Pärt. At the Elbphilharmonie, compositions by the Estonian composer are combined with the masterly sounds of Mozart to create a new whole that illuminates death – and life – from a perspective between then and now.

PERFORMERS

Dresdner Philharmonie orchestra

Dresdner Kreuzchor choir

Katharina Konradi soprano

Marie Henriette Reinhold mezzo-soprano

Patrick Grahl tenor

Kreimir Straanac bass

Martin Lehmann director

PROGRAM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor, KV 626

as well as works by Arvo Pärt