Mozart – Solemn Vespers for A Confessor, Mozart – Requiem, and Peteris Vasks’ Dona nobis pacem (Grant Us Peace)

This program opens with Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339, a luminous work written for the Salzburg Cathedral. These vespers showcase Mozart’s mastery of combining choral and orchestral textures— featuring moments of grandeur balanced by intimate, lyrical exchanges.

Following this is Mozart’s Requiem, K. 626, his final, unfinished masterpiece. Left incomplete at the time of his death, the Requiem is both a deeply personal reflection and a timeless communal expression of mourning and hope. In this work, soloists, choir, and orchestra engage in a poignant conversation, weaving together themes of humanity and eternity with sublime intensity.

The program concludes with Peteris Vasks’ Dona nobis pacem (Grant Us Peace), a contemporary meditation on peace and reconciliation. Vasks’ music speaks with a powerful simplicity, offering a dialogue between past and present, tradition and innovation.

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Program

MOZART Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339

I. Dixit

II. Confitebor

III. Beatus vir

IV. Laudate pueri

V. Laudate Dominum

VI. Magnificat

INTERMISSION

MOZART Requiem, K. 626

I. Introitus – Requiem

II. Kyrie

III. Sequenz

Dies irae

Tuba mirum

Rex tremendae

Recordare

Confutatis

Lacrimosa

IV. Offertorium

Domine Jesu

Hostias

V. Sanctus (from Marianne von Martínez’s Terza Messa)

VI. Benedictus

VII. Agnus Dei

VIII. Communio – Lux aeterna