Bruch, Kurtág & Mozart with OSR, Jonathan Nott, Himari & Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne. A night of pure musical emotion.

Jonathan Nott conductor
Himari violin
Chelsea Marilyn Zurflüh soprano
Eve-Maud Hubeaux mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Ovenden tenor
Alexandros Stavrakakis bass
Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne

György Kurtág
Grabstein für Stephan
Max Bruch
Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Intermission
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor, KV 626

Composed by György Kurtág in memory of his singer friend Stephan Stein, Grabstein is a short and moving elegy written in 1989 based on earlier sketches. It is a kind of chorale centered on a few guitar notes scattered in instrumental groups distributed in the four corners of the room.
The deserved popularity of the Violin Concerto No. 1 has overshadowed almost all of Max Bruch’s other works. Its gypsy accents, the beauty of its themes and its brilliant orchestration always win approval.
If the complicated genesis of Mozart’s Requiem is well known, it remains difficult to separate Mozart’s intentions from those of his pupil Süssmayr who hardly produced any significant works. Our only certainty is that we are in the presence of a timeless masterpiece of exceptional spiritual scope.
Approximately 2h40 including a 20-minute intermission