Orchestra of the 18th century Amsterdam - Mozarts Requiem

Mozart's Requiem

While working on a commissioned requiem, 35-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fell seriously ill. Testimonies from contemporaries confirm that the composer wondered whether this Requiem would become his own funeral mass. Mozart, very familiar with the traditional funeral mass, wrote a piece with a deeply personal intimacy. This unfinished masterpiece, completed by his pupil Süßmayer, is dramatic and moving, as if Mozart were trying to imagine what it would mean to have to leave this world. His Requiem is thus a moving, personal document.

Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century

The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century is a leader when it comes to performing old music. The musicians always return to the source: what is in the score, what do these notes tell us? They summarise it nicely: 'With the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven as a basis, the orchestra always searches for the expressiveness of old music in modern times. How would you react as a listener to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony if you were to hear it for the first time? How exuberant was Mozart's audience at the premiere of Cosí fan tutte ?' Mozart's Requiem is a favourite piece of the orchestra. In this concert they perform the requiem with Cappella Amsterdam, a tried and tested combination.