Mozart Requiem

WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL CHOIR
& BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

As Lent enters the drama and emotion of Holy Week, Washington National Cathedral offers a Palm Sunday performance of Mozart’s Requiem, the very piece Mozart was working on in the final days of his own earthly journey.

The Washington National Cathedral Choir & Baroque Orchestra take on Mozart’s heart-wrenching Requiem, in the edition completed by his student, Franz Sussmeyr. Dark and enigmatic, the Requiem is a profound tribute to the themes of life, death and resurrection that shape the Holy Week narrative.

The performance begins with the Requiem by Herbert Howells, interposed with broody arias from a selection of J.S. Bach’s cantatas. Come reflect on Christ’s own journey through the valley of the shadow of death through this emotional performance of Mozart’s masterpiece.

Program

• Sinfonia – J.S. Bach
• Cantata BWV 4 Christ lag in Todesbanden

• Salvator Mundi (O Saviour of the world)
• Requiem – Herbert Howells

• Arioso - Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwolfe – J.S. Bach
• Cantata BWV 22 Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwolfe

• Psalm 23 (The Lord is my shepherd)
• Requiem aeternam (1)
• Requiem – Herbert Howells

• Aria - Es ist volbracht – J.S. Bach
• Cantata BWV 159 Sehet! Wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem

• Psalm 121 (I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills)
• Requiem aeternam (2)
• Requiem – Herbert Howells

• Aria - Die Seele ruht
• BWV127 Herr Jesu Christ wahr’ Mensch und Gott – J.S. Bach

• I heard a voice from heaven
• Requiem – Herbert Howells

• Chorale - Jesu, deine Passion – J.S. Bach
• Cantata BWV 159 Sehet! Wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem

Intermission

• Requiem – W.A. Mozart

Personnel

• Laura Choi Stuart, soprano
• Hannah Hagerty, alto
• Matthew Smith, tenor
• Richard Giarusso, baritone
• Steven Combs, bass/baritone
• Washington National Cathedral Choir
• Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra
• Canon Michael McCarthy, conductor