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In Mozart's Lacrimosa (from his Requiem), before the final section (marked "forte"), the choir and orchestra settle on a major F chord, for a two-bar motif on clarinets and oboes. During these two bars, the choir doesn't sing.
1 day ago · Mozart understood that it was human nature acted out on the stage of life that bred class divisions and social tensions. Through the combined brilliance of Mozart’s music and Da Ponte’s words, then, the characters in Figaro are made the furthest thing from mere archetypes; they are as real and as identifiable as the people around us today ...
1 day ago · In contrast, the Kyrie is a bouncing full-blooded fugue and the Lacrimosa is a heartfelt lament. Lazarenko has another outing with Mozart in this concert after her recent role as Ilia in Opera Australia’s production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. The four soloists work together well, instinctively retreating when one or the other takes the solo line.
1 day ago · The 27 voices of the SCC divided for J.S. Bach’s jubilant motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Sing to the Lord a new song), with breath control, intonation and precision all put to the test in the opening section in which lines and phrases are joyfully tossed from one side to the other with Anthony Abouhamad’s chamber organ lending support.
5 days ago · In Verdi’s day, the lower brass parts in an opera score would have been played by the most popular brass instruments of the time, which could have been a serpent, bombardone or ophicleide. The word ‘cimbasso’ came to mean any of these instruments, that could play the lowest brass part.
14 hours ago · Game 5 between the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Clippers is upon us. Queue Mozart’s “Lacrimosa,” because it’s about to get really dramatic in here. The way the series has built to ...
