The OAE Plays Mozart and Haydn

A musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna. The threat to Austria from Napoleon’s army is vividly rendered in the turbulent opening of Haydn’s choral tour de force the ‘Nelson Mass’, but it’s Nelson’s victory we hear in the celebratory ending.

There’s brooding spiritual darkness from Zelenka’s Miserere and Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music – written in response to the deaths of two of the composer’s fellow Freemasons. Soprano Erin Morley is the soloist in two of Mozart’s showstopping ‘insertion’ arias.

Programme:
Zelenka Miserere in C minor
Mozart Masonic Funeral Music
Aria ‘Schon lacht der holde Frühling’
Aria ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!’
Haydn Mass in D minor, ‘Nelson Mass’

Performers:
Erin Morley soprano
Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting tenor
William Thomas bass
Choir of the Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Peter Whelan conductor