Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem is one of the most enigmatic and admired works in music literature, touching the hearts of people throughout the ages and prompting quiet reflections on life, death and eternity. Genius's final work is surrounded by legend and controversy about how it was written, and how much of what was written belongs to Mozart himself. They recede when the score comes alive in sound and it is clear that Mozart's genius was present.
The impetus for Mozart's ''Kyrie'' in D minor also remains a mystery. It is thought that it was probably intended as the first movement of a large-scale Mess, which remained unfinished. Mozart reveals in his prayer, with a sublime spirit and trembling expectation in the sounds, that the divine is to be found in every being. The composer's biographer Alfred Einstein called this composition ''enough to make a man fall to his knees in humility''.
PROGRAMME
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Kyrie B minor KV. 341
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem KV 626
PARTICIPANTS
Ilze Grēvele-Skaraine, soprano
Ieva Parša, mezzo-soprano
Artjoms Safronovs, tenor
Edgars Ošleja, bass
Latvian Radio Choir
Sinfonietta Rīga
Conductor Sigvards Kļava
