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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626
Orchestra: Orquesta Reino de Aragón
Conductor: Ricardo Casero
Choir: Coro Amici Musicae
Choirmaster: Igor Tantos
Soloists: Andrés Sánchez-Joglar, Eugenia Boix, Giorgio Celenza, Patricia Illera

Huge thanks to the Orquesta Reino de Aragón and conductor Ricardo Casero for this live performance. Below you’ll find quick program notes—what the piece is about, a bit on our amazing performers, and a short bio of the composer. Enjoy!

Mozart: Requiem, K. 626.
Composed in 1791 and left unfinished at Mozart’s death, the Requiem was completed soon after by his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Although only about two-thirds of the score was actually written by Mozart, it remains one of his most important and best-known works. Beyond its undeniable musical value, its fame also stems from the unusual, shadowy circumstances of its commission—anonymous patronage (likely Count Franz von Walsegg), alleged intrigues, and the legends and mysteries surrounding its creation—all inseparably bound to the composer’s final days and death. Steeped in the liturgy of the Mass for the Dead, the work moves from the solemn “Introitus” and fugal “Kyrie” through the searing “Dies irae” sequence to the supplicatory “Lacrimosa,” before closing with the serene “Lux aeterna.” Scored for chorus, soloists, and orchestra with dark-hued basset horns, it fuses dramatic urgency with consolation—an austere, haunting farewell.

Orquesta Reino de Aragón
ORA is a leading private ensemble founded in 2011 by Aragonese musician Sergio Guarné. It has performed over 200 concerts in eight countries and has surpassed the 200,000-attendance mark, earning critical acclaim from both the public and the press. Since the 2013/2014 season, its principal conductor has been maestro Ricardo Casero, and since 2017, it has been a resident ensemble at the Zaragoza Auditorium.
Discover more about ORA at their website: https://www.orquestareinodearagon.es/la-orquesta/

Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg. His father, Leopold Mozart, was himself a composer and music teacher, and it was he who, at the same time as his elder daughter Maria (Nannerl), cultivated his son Wolfgang’s talents as a performer and composer from a very early age. Leopold, Wolfgang, and Nannerl toured many of Europe’s courts, performing as enfant prodiges, during which, at only eight years old, Wolfgang wrote his first symphony. His later career eventually brought him to Vienna, where he remained for the final ten years of his life. During his Viennese residence, Mozart composed many of his most famous and mature works, such as Don Giovanni, Eine Kleine Nacht Music, the Clarinet Concerto in A Major, the Jupiter Symphony, and the posthumous Requiem. He died of unclear causes in 1791, in relative penury, but was nonetheless greatly celebrated and grieved by his contemporaries, with packed memorial services and concerts in many of the great cities of the Empire. His early death at only 35 is considered one of the great losses of classical music. If his later works are any indication, the history of classical music would’ve been fundamentally altered had he been able to contribute for any longer.

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