Thursday, September 11th 2008. 20:00
Karlskirche

Programme

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus:
Requiem d-Moll KV 626

Soloists, Choir and Orchestra perform Mozart's Requiem conducted by Konstantin Hiller.

Fans of Mozart's spiritual music will be thrilled by this performance of Mozart's requiem. Mozart's last opus in an amazing concert in one of the most beautiful baroque doms north of the alps. This masterpiece of classical music is characterized by it's different emotional phases of uprising, fear, hope and salvation. Emotions that Mozart lived through during the weeks of writing the music that should be his last.

The choir and the orchestra of the Salzburger Konzertgesellschaft are two ensembles consisting of musicians with strong ties to Salzburg. The members of the choir are all trained singers, who for the most part graduated from the highly renowned Mozarteum in Salzburg.