Mozart's Requiem at Gran Teatre del Liceu

The Requiem is a work bathed in mystery. Its luminous lyricism has the power to entrance us while the counterpoint and fugues impress on us the inevitability of death. Its exquisite beauty has made it an all-time classic.

It was commissioned by an anonymous aristocrat, who hoped to pass it off as his own work. But the already ailing Mozart became obsessed with it and saw it as his own requiem.

He failed to complete it and it was finished by his pupil F. X. Süssmayr on the basis of outlines and instructions provided by the dying composer.
Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Masonic Funeral Music (Maurerische Trauermusik), KV 477 (479a)
Concert for piano and orchestra No. 23 in A major, KV 488
Requiem, KV 626

Elena Copons soprano

Gemma Coma-Alabert mezzo-soprano

David Alegret tenor

José Antonio López baritone