Welcome to an evening of music by Franz Schubert and Arvo Pärt, alongside one of Mozart’s most famous works.

Join us for a free pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM with Timothy Miller.

Schubert’s Stabat Mater is a beautiful and sorrowful tribute to the Virgin Mary. Arvo Pärt admired Benjamin Britten greatly, and composed Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten as an elegy to mourn the composer’s death in 1976. Pärt’s L'abbé Agathon is composed for soprano and strings, inspired by Maladrerie Saint-Lazare, one of Europe’s oldest hospitals for leprosy patients.

The evening concludes with Mozart’s powerful Requiem, one of his most iconic works. Mozart composed Requiem towards the end of his short life, passing away before its completion. His assistant, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, finished the immortal masterpiece.

PROGRAM
Franz Schubert: Stabat Mater, D.175
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt: L'abbé Agathon (arr. Kõrvits)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem

PERFORMERS
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
Maria Listra, soprano
Ingeborg Gillebo, alto
Anders Jerker Dahlin, tenor
Trond Gudevold, bass
Stavanger Symphony Choir

ORGANIZER
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra