Mozart - Requiem in D minor, K. 626

W. A. Mozart REQUIEM

The concert will open with a refined work by Leopold Koželuch, the Concerto for Piano Four
Hands, entrusted to the elegant interpretation of Barbara Cattabiani and Claudia Agostini.
A leading figure of Viennese Classicism, Koželuch was admired by his contemporaries for his
clear and brilliant style, capable of combining the melodic grace of his time with a vibrant and
expressive pianistic writing. In this rare performance for piano four hands, the close dialogue
between the two performers will offer the audience a moment of balance and lightness,
preparing the way—through its luminosity—for the listening of Mozart’s monumental
Requiem in the second half of the concert.

The Requiem Mass K 626 in D minor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's last unfinished work,
represents a labyrinth of contradictions and mysteries that over time has divided historians and
musicologists, fueling conjectures and igniting passions.
Mozart completed only the Introit: Requiem aeternam, and wrote the main parts of the opera,
indicating the melodic motif of the accompaniment from time to time. Kyrie, Sequentia (with
the Lacrimosa which stops after the first eight bars) and the Offertorium arrived at this stage.
After Mozart's death, his wife Constanze delegated the completion of the Requiem to her
husband's three pupils, in order to get closer to the original intentions of the work, but only
Franz Xaver Süssmayr continued the work, homogeneously rearranging the work of the
previous collaborators and completing the totally missing passages of the manuscript.
From the very first notes there is a sense of anguish, it is as if the author was afraid of death and judgment and it is as if it were already present.

Samuele Travaglini, conductor - Lorenzo Macrì, choir master
Luisa Ciciriello, soprano
Beatrice Maccaroni, mezzo-soprano
Delfo Paone, tenor
Ferruccio Finetti, bass/baritone

Accademia Vocale Romana Choir
Città di Roma Symphony Orchestra

program

LEOPOLD KOZELUCH
Klavierkonzert für vier Hände
Barbara Cattabiani und Claudia Agostini, Klavier
W. A. MOZART
Requiem d-Moll, KV 626

Place

St Paul's Within the Walls (Italian: San Paolo dentro le mura), also known as the American Church in Rome, is a church of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe on Via Nazionale in Castro Pretorio, Rome. It was the first Protestant church to be built in Rome. Designed by English architect George Edmund Street in Gothic Revival style, it was built in polychrome brick and stone, and completed in 1880.

The church contains mosaics which are the largest works of the English Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.