Mozart'sRequiem and Solemn Vespers

North Herts Guild of Singers

Mozart's Requiem and Solemn Vespers

Conductor: Harry Bradford

Orchestra: The Beaufoy Players

Soloists: Danni O'Neill, Merce Bruguera Abello, Matthew McKinney. Alexander Bower-Brown

Our MD, Harry Bradford, has put together a special orchestra, The Beaufoy Players and an array of dazzling young soloists. The centrepiece of the concert is Mozart’s well-known Requiem, famously written on his deathbed. In Harry’s words, it has, ‘stunning displays of harmonic and contrapuntal invention as well heart-achingly beautiful melodies that are made all the pertinent given the situation of composition’.

The Requiem is contrasted with the buoyant and vivacious setting of the ’Solemn Vespers’ including the beautiful ‘Laudate Dominum’ for solo soprano which has, quite rightly, earned a place in the soprano aria hall of fame for its exquisite sense of line and intimacy.