Requiem
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
GRAND SELECTION
02 November 8 p.m.
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Requiem
02 November 8 p.m.
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Grand Selection

  • Date:
    02 November 8 p.m.
  • Hall: Main Auditorium

In a New Light

We tend to forget that before marble busts appeared on conservatory pianos, composers were human beings first. On this same scale, they wrote their most intricate musical creations even though some have been catalogued as oversized buildings where one is easily lost. Lionel Meunier and Vox Luminis participate in this humanistic focus and humanizing of musical interpretation. What tradition made severe and colossal is no longer so heavy: it appears before us in a new light.

Haydn and Mozart, friends and residents of Vienna, wrote two of the most grandiose and imposing masses in the repertory which are, as well, unequivocal accounts of human fragility. Transcending Baroque models and the limits of Catholic liturgy, there are the audience’s sentiments, anguish, and fears when faced with the unescapable. This has been true from the time of their premieres right through to our own days. The luminous, transparent, deeply expressive and meticulous approach by Meunier and his ensemble heighten the emotional impact of both scores. Monuments of humanistic proportions.


Joseph Haydn,  Missa in angustiis d-Moll Hob. XXII:11 "Nelsonmesse"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem, KV 626

  • Concertmaster: Gregory Ahss
  • Bass & Artistic Direction: Lionel Meunier

CAMERATA Salzburg
Vox Luminis XL

CAMERATA Salzburg. © Igor Studio

  • Soprano: Gwendoline Blondeel
  • Mezzo: Marie Henriette Reinhold
  • Tenor: Raffaele Giordani
  • Bass: Sebastian Myrus

About Lionel Meunier

Born in Clamecy (Francia), has collaborated with distinguished ensembles and European conductors, combining his career as a singer and soloist with conducting, ensemble preparation and teaching, specializing in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. Founded Vox Luminis in 2004.

About CAMERATA Salzburg and Vox Luminis

CAMERATA Salzburg: in its more than 70 years, it has become one of the world’s most established and acclaimed chamber orchestras. With musicians from more than 20 countries, the orchestra is renowned for its transparent sound, energy, deep emotional intensity and a collaboration with excellent soloists.

Vox Luminis: a well-known international ensemble that specializes in early music, and particularly, English, Italian and German repertory of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th. It performs around 70 concerts each year with an interest in introducing vocal music to the audience at large by way of historical interpretations at a high level.