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Mozart Requiem at Koerner Hall
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Directed by Ivars Taurins
Toronto, Canada, February 4, 2013 … Tafelmusik presents Mozart’s timeless masterpiece, Requiem, in the
wonderful acoustics of Koerner Hall February 21 to 24, 2013. Ivars Taurins conducts the Orchestra and Chamber
Choir, and they are joined by four remarkable vocal soloists: Nathalie Paulin (soprano), Laura Pudwell (mezzo-
soprano), Lawrence Wiliford (tenor) and Nathaniel Watson (baritone). These performances of Mozart’s Requiem
are supported by Al and Jane Forest.
Two Mozart motets bookend the first half of the programme, which includes music composed by the Bach family
that influenced Mozart: a funeral aria by Johann Christoph Bach, a motet by CPE Bach, as well as three J.S. Bach
keyboard fugues transcribed by Mozart for strings. Mozart’s famous Ave verum corpus closes the first half.
The Requiem was Mozart’s final composition and remained unfinished at the time of his death in December 1791
at the age of 36. The vocal parts and the figured bass were partially completed as far as the Hostias, but only the
first movement was fully orchestrated; other movements had nothing more than sketches of the orchestra parts.
Desperate to receive the commission fee, Mozart’s wife Constanze was determined to have the score completed
and asked various people to undertake the task. One of Mozart's students, Franz Xavier Süssmayr, completed
the Requiem in February 1792.
For its February performances, Tafelmusik has chosen to use a recent edition by the musicologist H.C. Robbins
Landon, which incorporates passages by Mozart’s pupils Franz Jakob Freystädtler and Joseph Eybler, as well as the
Süssmayr portions. Despite its fragmentary origins, the Requiem is profoundly moving and remains one of
Mozart’s most beloved and enduring works.
On Friday, February 8 as part of Tafelscene, a free membership programme for concert-goers ages 35 & under,
Tafelmusik presents a special screening of the Director’s Cut of the 1984 Academy Award-winning movie
AMADEUS. Membership information and other details are available at Tafelscene.
Dates + Times: Koerner Hall
Thu Feb 21, Fri Feb 22 & Sat Feb 23 at 8pm
Sun Feb 24 at 3:30pm
Ticket Prices Regular: $45 – $99
65+: $35 - $89
Ages 35 & Under: $25 - $89
Venue: Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, The Royal Conservatory,
273 Bloor Street West
Box Office: Weston Family Box Office: 416.408.0208 | www.tafelmusik.org
Website: www.tafelmusik.org / www.facebook.com/tafelmusik.org
Full programme: Mozart Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, K.273
Mozart, after J.S. Bach Fugue in D Minor, K.405/4, after BWV 877
J. C. Bach Sterb-Aria: Mit weinen
Mozart, after J.S. Bach Fugue in E Major, K.405/3, after BWV 878
CPE Bach Motet "Oft klagt mein Herz”
Mozart, after J.S. Bach Fugue in D Major, K.405/5, after BWV 874
Mozart Ave verum corpus
Mozart Requiem
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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, led by Music Director Jeanne Lamon and founded in 1979, is one of the world’s leading period
performance ensembles. The orchestra performs over 50 concerts a year at home in Toronto, tours extensively around the
world, has released over 80 CDs and has received nine JUNO Awards and a Grammy Award nomination. Tafelmusik Media, the
choir and orchestra’s multi-platform recording label, was launched in January 2012. Tafelmusik is the Baroque Orchestra-in-
Residence at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto where it hosts its annual Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute. The
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, under the direction of Ivars Taurins, was formed in 1981 to complement the Orchestra. The
2012/13 touring season brings Tafelmusik’s two most recent multi-media concerts, The Galileo Project and House of Dreams,
to audiences across North America.
Season Presenting Sponsor:
Mozart Requiem concerts supported by:
Tafelmusik gratefully acknowledges the support of its partners in government:
Tafelmusik’s Season Radio Sponsor is The New CLASSICAL 96.3 FM.
For media information or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Luisa Trisi, Media Relations Manager, tel: 416 481‐1161 | e‐mail: [email protected]
High‐resolution photos of Ivars Taurins and the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir are available for download in the
Media Room at www.tafelmusik.org