Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Psalms and Mass at the Highest Level

Even in Felix Mendelssohn’s lifetime, his Psalm 42, »Wie der Hirsch schreit« (As the Hart Pants), was regarded as his most significant psalm setting. Robert Schumann felt it stood »on the highest level that modern church music has yet attained«. The evening’s second work, too, has garnered its fair share of praise: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mass in C minor, later dubbed the »Great Mass« on account of its artistic quality and enduring presence in the concert repertoire. The scale of the composition exceeded anything Mozart had written in the realm of mass settings up to that point – here he was grappling with Händel and Bach as historical models, which is clearly audible in the work’s highly contrapuntal style.

An Evening at the UdK

Experience the Rundfunkchor Berlin in the concert hall of the Universität der Künste Berlin, the very institution where many of our singers once studied. The performance will be given with the Sinfonisches Kammerorchester Berlin, under the direction of our Chief Conductor Gijs Leenaars.