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Mozart Requiem

Wednesday

17.12.2025

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Opera & Voice

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Thursday

18.12.2025

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Series S
Opera & Voice

Concert Partner

Programme

Jonathan Nottconductor

Himariviolin

Chelsea Marilyn Zurflühsoprano

Eve-Maud Hubeauxmezzo-soprano

Jeremy Ovendentenor

Alexandros Stavrakakisbass

Ensemble Vocal de Lausannechoir

György Kurtág
Grabstein für Stephan

Max Bruch 
Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26

Intermission 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Requiem in D minor KV 626

Approximately 2h40 including a 20-minute intermission

The music

Composed by György Kurtag in memory of his singer friend Stephan Stein, Grabstein is a short and moving elegy written in 1989 based on earlier sketches. It is a kind of chorale centered on a few guitar notes scattered in instrumental groups distributed in the four corners of the room.

The deserved popularity of the Violin Concerto No. 1 has overshadowed almost all of Max Bruch's other works. Its gypsy accents, the beauty of its themes and its brilliant orchestration always win approval.

If the complicated genesis of Mozart's Requiem is well known, it remains difficult to separate Mozart's intentions from those of his pupil Süssmayr who hardly produced any significant works. Our only certainty is that we are in the presence of a timeless masterpiece of exceptional spiritual scope.

The venues

OSR Live

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Claude Debussy - Duke Ellington - Richard Strauss

Rhapsodie pour clarinette - New World A-Comin' - Don Quichotte

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Marc Perrenoud

artist in residence , piano

Recorded on 21 September 2022 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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JONATHAN NOTT

Conductor

Yvonne Naef

mezzo-soprano

György Ligeti
Poème symphonique, pour cent métronomes

Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm süsser Tod (orchestration by Leopold Stokowski)

Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Recorded on 21 January 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

Highlights

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