Mozart Requiem

Mozart Requiem (K626)

Salieri Coronation Te Deum

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

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.

Joanna Songi soprano
Martha Jones mezzo soprano
Andrew Henley tenor
Tristan Hambleton bass baritone
Matthew Fletcher piano
Ben-San Lau piano
Bury Bach Choir
Benedict Collins Rice conductor

General Booking opens 31 March 2025

Tickets: £25 reserved, £18 unreserved (half price for under-30’s)
Venue: St Mary’s Church, Honey Hill, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1RT
Date: 7 June 2025
Starts: 7.30pm
Ends: 9.30pm

This event is promoted by Bury Bach Choir

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