Mozart's Requiem at Severance Music Center

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Christoph Sietzen, percussion
Siobhan Stagg, soprano
Avery Amereau, alto
Ben Bliss, tenor
Anthony Schneider, bass
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

STAUD  Whereas the Reality Trembles Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (World Premiere, Cleveland Orchestra co-commission)

MOZART  Requiem

Legends swirl around the creation of Mozart’s Requiem, written on his deathbed and left unfinished: Who was the mysterious figure who commissioned the composer? What parts of the work were truly his own? And was Mozart composing his own funeral mass with this final artistic statement? Many of these questions were explored hauntingly (abeit suspiciously) in the movie Amadeus. We are nevertheless left with a work of overwhelming power — at once intensely dramatic and deeply personal — that touches the core of our humanity.