Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music for his impending death. Rather, the piece proclaims eternal light and redemption. Together with a first-class quartet of soloists, the ...

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Mozart’s haunting ‘Lacrimosa’ from his famous Requiem, written in 1791 as the composer himself was in ailing health. The Requiem had been commissioned by an anonymous figure, and as Mozart’s health ...

Music has its seasons, and people have their needs. At some point in the autumn of 1979, I became obsessed with a few bars of Mozart. I was thirteen, fundamentally cheerful but convinced I was ...

Kāpiti Chorale opens its 2026 concert season with a programme built around a lesser-known work that helped shape one of the most recognised pieces in the choral repertoire, performed with chamber ...