Concert: Mozart's 'Solemn Vespers'
Date: Friday 1 October 2021
Time: 11:00
Venue
St John the Evangelist Church, Iffley Rd, Oxford OX4 1EH
Merton College Choir
Rowan Pierce soprano
Instruments of Time & Truth
Benjamin Nicholas director
This concert evoked the musical drama and splendour with which Vespers was celebrated in late 18th-century Salzburg, where Mozart worked in the early part of his career. Mozart’s skills as an operatic composer are apparent in the dramatic treatment of the psalm texts of the Solemn Vespers de confessore, and even more so in the virtuosic solo motet Exsultate, Jubilate, sung by award-winning soprano Rowan Pierce, which ends with the famous exuberant Alleluia.
