St Michael’s Church, Flower Lane, London NW7 2JA at 7.30 pm see map

Michael Haydn	Requiem in C minor
Mozart	Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
Orpheus Sinfonia	Orchestra
Tom Winpenny	Conductor

Both these works were composed and performed in Salzburg, where the
composers were working at the court and cathedral of the Prince-Archbishop.
Michael Haydn, like his older brother Joseph, was a boy singer in Vienna’s
St. Stephen’s Cathedral. As an adult, he moved to Salzburg where Mozart, who was nearly 20 years younger, was born. Mozart played in the orchestra when Michael Haydn’s Requiem was performed and it seems that it influenced some movements in Mozart’s Requiem, composed at the end of his life in Vienna. The Requiem sets the familiar words of that service.

The text of the Vespers comprises settings of psalms plus the Magnificat; the fourth movement of the Vespers is the much-loved Laudate Dominum, which is often performed alone.
In addition, we will sing Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus, composed during his
final year. This touching motet was written in Baden near Vienna when he was
visiting his wife, who was staying at the spa.

We hope you will put this date firmly in your diary and encourage your
contacts to come along; the concert is free for those less than 18 years
old. Details are on the poster and the website.