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Gloger music festival - Final concert: Mozart and Brahms
Sunday, Janyary 26. 2025, 18:00
Kongsberg Church
Doors open at 17:30
Entrance fee: from 250 to 520 NOK/ students and children 100 NOK
Faith and doubt in summary: Mozart and Brahms
2025 is Grete Pedersen's last year as artistic director of the Norwegian Soloists' Choir. She has led the choir since 1990. An institution of a conductor is entering its last season, and under her direction three of Norway's most renowned ensembles will close this year's festival with Mozart's monumental Mass in C minor.
Mozart was a devout Catholic, and it has been speculated whether the mass was written as a thank you for his wife Constanze's recovery from illness. At the premiere in 1783, she sang one of the solo parts in the work which, like Mozart's Requiem, was never completed. Brahms was a doubter all his life. His outlook on life put love, life and religion in the light of doubt. Nevertheless, his music stands like a pillar in church rooms around the world.
The Gloger music festival end by comparing the sounds of these outstanding composers. We couldn't have crowned a party about faith and doubt in a better way!
Program:
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897)
Schicksalslied, Op. 54
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Mass in C minor, K427/417a
Kyrie
Andante moderato: Choir and soprano
Gloria
Allegro vivace: Choir
Laudamus te, Allegro aperto: Soprano
Gratias agimus tibi, Adagio: Choir
Domine, Allegro moderato: Sopranos I og II
Qui tollis, Largo: Double choir
Quoniam, Allegro: Soprano I and II, Tenor
Jesu Christe, Adagio – Cum Sancto Spiritu: Choir
Credo
Credo in unum Deum, Allegro maestoso: Choir
Et incarnatus est, Andante: Soprano I
Sanctus
Largo: Double choir
Benedictus
Allegro comodo: Quartet and double choir
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Geistliches Lied, Op. 30
Performers
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir
Ensemble Allegria
Oslo Kammerakademi
Berit Norbakken
Grete Pedersen