Czech Philharmonic ⬩ Manfred Honeck

Programme

Arvo Pärt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Franz Schubert
Litany for the Feast of All Souls, D 343

Witold Lutosławski
Musique funèbre, for string orchestra

A Requiem – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Death in Music and Text 

Three Bell Strokes 

Gregorian Chant: Requiem aeternam 

Reading*: Letter of Mozart to his father, 4 April 1787 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Maurerische Trauermusik C Minor K 477 (479a) 

Gregorian Chant: Domine exaudi orationem meam 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Laudate Dominum
from Vesperae  solennes de Confessore K 339/5 

Gregorian Chant: In quacumque die 

Reading: Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)
"Wer weiß, wo die Sterne stehen"
"Wenn im Vorsommer"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem K 626
I. Introitus – Requiem
II. Kyrie 

Reading: Book of Revelations 6, 8-17 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem K 626
III. Sequenz
Dies Irae
Tuba mirum
Rex tremendae
Recordare
Confutatis
Lacrimosa 

Gregorian Chant: Christus factus est

Reading: Book of Revelations 21, 1-7 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem K 626
IV. Offertorium
Domine Jesu
Hostias
Lacrimosa (Fragment, first 8 bars) 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave verum corpus K 618 

Three Bell Strokes 

*the texts are supposed to be recited in the national language