ASMF & Cambridge Summer Music Festival: Mozart’s Requiem

27 July 2024, 19:30
Saffron Hall, Essex

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27 July
Saturday
Saffron Hall, Essex

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields join forces with the Academy of English Voices and star soloist Martin James Bartlett for a Celebration of Mozart.

Beginning with the eight-year-old Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony, and concluding with his final masterpiece, the Requiem, it also features the K. 482 Piano Concerto. Using clarinets in the orchestra for the first time, Mozart particularly impresses with the lyrical passages in the slow sections of the concerto, which received a rapturous reception at the first performance in 1785. His father, Leopold, reports that Mozart “had to repeat” the Andante immediately.

 

PROGRAMME

Mozart Symphony No.1 in E-Flat major, K16

Mozart Piano Concerto No.22 in E-Flat Major, K 482

Mozart Requiem in D minor, K 626

 

Performers

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Academy of English Voices

Martin James Bartlett piano

Ben Johnson conductor