Mozart Requiem

Saturday 7 June 2025

7.30pm

(ends 9.30pm approximately)

St Mary's Church, Honey Hill, Bury St Edmunds

Mozart Requiem

Mozart    Requiem (K626)

Salieri      Coronation Te Deum

Mozart     Arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte

Joanna Songi soprano                       

Martha Jones mezzo soprano           

Andrew Henley tenor

Tristan Hambleton bass

Matthew Fletcher  piano

Ben-San Lau  piano 

Bury Bach Choir

Benedict Collins Rice conductor

For our summer concert, the Bury Bach Choir performs one of the most well-known and best-loved choral works of the repertory: Mozart’s Requiem.

Mozart accepted the commission for the Requiem from a mysteriously anonymous patron in the summer of 1791. By the autumn Mozart was seriously ill and died on 5 December, having completed only half the work and sketched some of the rest. In urgent need of the remainder of the commissioning fee, Mozart’s widow Constanze secretly invited her husband’s pupil, Franz Süssmayr, to complete the score, which was then delivered to the patron with no mention of Süssmayr’s involvement! Despite the availability of several recent modern completions of Mozart’s Requiem, Süssmayr’s version remains the one most familiar to audiences. For this special performance, we are accompanied by two outstanding pianists, on one piano, performing the acclaimed four-hand piano version by Carl Czerny.

With the inclusion of Salieri’s short Coronation Te Deum (Antonio Salieri, a respected composer, was Mozart's contemporary), and some favourite arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas sung by our four wonderful soloists, this will be an occasion to enjoy and to remember – don’t miss it.

Booking opens 31 March 2025

Tickets £25 reserved, £18 unreserved (half price for under-30s)

Early booking discount £1 off all full price tickets booked by 15 April 2025

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