
Bremen Musikfest – Handel & Purcell Royal Odes
Join us for a celebratory evening of royal odes by Handel and Purcell — resplendent in pomp and glory!

Join us for a celebratory evening of royal odes by Handel and Purcell — resplendent in pomp and glory!

Join us for a celebratory evening of royal odes by Handel and Purcell — resplendent in pomp and glory!

When in 1785 the Wiener Tonkünstlersozietät, a pension fund for the widows and orphans of professional musicians, asked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for a choral work for their benefit concerts, the composer used a trick that was quite common at the time: he placed the Kyrie and Gloria of his unfinished mass in c -Moll with […]

With its large polyphonic choirs and its long virtuosic solo arias, the Great Mass in C minor, written in 1782, surpassed Mozart’s earlier sacred compositions in scope. Nowadays it is considered one of the greatest mass settings in the history of European music, even though it remained unfinished, like the composer’s requiem. There is still […]