Thursday 4 December 7:30 PM
Mozart's Great Mass
Grieghallen
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In 1780, Mozart made a promise to his beloved fiancé, Constanze. He vowed to write her a grand setting of the Roman Catholic Mass, a gesture of thanksgiving to God that she had recovered from illness and a tribute to her glittering, high soprano voice.
Mozart wasn’t able to keep his promise - he only finished the big movements - but the music he did complete lacks nothing in impact, sincerity and majesty, especially since twentieth-century musicologists have filled in some blanks.
Mozart’s Great C Minor Mass is a meeting of the operatic and the sacred, a journey in music that builds from its stately opening procession into expressions of calm, fury and radiance.
Matthew Halls, Music Director of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland and a specialist in eighteenth century music, conducts this performance of one of Mozart’s rare masterpieces of sacred music alongside stimulating motets by Francis Poulenc and composer-in-residence Ørjan Matre’s beguiling concerto for harp, choir and instruments.
Image: Soprano Julie Roset, photo: David Noles