Mozart Requiem
Wednesday
17.12.2025
19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva
Sponsor
Thursday
18.12.2025
19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva
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.