Our next concert will be a performance of Dvořák’s “Requiem”, a gorgeous piece which has not been performed in Ireland in many years, at the National Concert Hall on 1st April 2012 at 8pm.

Antonín Dvořák composed this Requiem mass for choir, soloists, and orchestra in 1890, at the beginning of his peak creative period. The construction of the mass is not typical: the composition is divided in two basic parts (conducive to an intermission – this piece is even better suited to a concert hall than a cathedral), each of which begins with the original interconnection of several liturgical sequences. Likewise, Dvořák inserted between the “Sanctus” and “Agnus Dei” a lyrical movement “Pie Jesu,” created on the base of the final text of the “Dies Irae” sequence. Its basic melodic motif is created by two ascending half-tones with an incorporated very sorrowful diminished third, which begins the opus and continues in many variations as the main motif running through the entire work. This composition was performed for the first time on 9 October 1891, in Birmingham, England, conducted by the composer.

Credits: Wikipedia & Youtube

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