NSO: Fennessy, Pärt, Mozart
Main Stage, National Concert Hall
NSO: Fennessy, Pärt, Mozart
National Symphony Orchestra
David Brophy - conductor
Aoife Miskelly - soprano
Gemma Ní Bhriain - mezzo-soprano
Robin Tritschler - tenor
Milan Siljanov - bass-baritone
National Symphony Chorus
David Young - choral director
The clamour and drama of life in one of the world’s most densely populated cities gives way to two sides of the same spiritual coin in a celebration of faith and anticipation of death. Arvo Pärt’s Berlin Mass is a luminous expression of joy written in response to the re-claiming of religious freedoms following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mozart’s Requiem is the most personal and rousing of declarations of a composer contemplating his own end. Inspired by a visit to Hong Kong, David Fennessy’s Bodies is a striking work featuring two ‘choirs’ of double basses, off-stage brass and percussion and a reference to Bach’s B minor Mass that conjures the claustrophobic experience of ‘a city so dense and crammed with people… all murmuring, shouting, screaming’.
Programme
David Fennessy - Bodies
Arvo Pärt - Berliner Messe
Mozart - Requiem
Estimated duration (opening link and interval included): 112’
Tickets
€15, €26.50, €33, €39, €45. Booking via NCH.