Mozart Requiem

Composed by György Kurtag in memory of his singer friend Stephan Stein, Grabstein is a short and moving elegy written in 1989 based on earlier sketches. It is a kind of chorale centered on a few guitar notes scattered in instrumental groups distributed in the four corners of the room.

The deserved popularity of the Violin Concerto No. 1 has overshadowed almost all of Max Bruch's other works. Its gypsy accents, the beauty of its themes and its brilliant orchestration always win approval.

If the complicated genesis of Mozart's Requiem is well known, it remains difficult to separate Mozart's intentions from those of his pupil Süssmayr who hardly produced any significant works. Our only certainty is that we are in the presence of a timeless masterpiece of exceptional spiritual scope.