Friday, October 15, 8.00pm
Sunday, October 17, 3.00pm
Symphony Hall

MOZART Mass in C Minor
MOZART Adagio and Fugue for Strings
HAYDN Ave Regina

Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Sally Matthews, soprano
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Richard Clement, tenor
David Kravitz, baritone

CLICK HERE to listen to Music Director Grant Llewellyn discuss this program.
CLICK HERE for program notes by Robert Mealy.

Mozart composed his breathtaking Mass in C minor as a wedding present for his new wife Constanze in 1783. The most spectacularly orchestrated of his church music, this Mass contains tremendous choruses based on Baroque examples of Bach and Handel, as well as gorgeous arias in the latest style. Mozart wrote this work in Vienna, but his only performance of the unfinished work was in Salzburg, for his parents, with Constanze singing one of the soprano parts.

For further information:

http://www.mozartproject.org/compositions/k_427__.html
A brief discussion of the work

http://www.mozartproject.org/biography/ch_81_85.html
A chronology of Mozart’s activities around the time of the
Mass

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mozart.html
A short biography of Mozart, from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music