A new Requiem

The author Jeroen Brouwers and artist Roger Raveel provide a contemporary response to the universal music of Mozart’s Requiem. Christian Köhler recomposes the score for die Harmonie, at typical wind section from around 1800. 

With Josse De Pauw as the director and text by Dutch author Jeroen Brouwers, all those involved are inspired by the brilliant music of Mozart's Requiem. During the performance, I Solisti del Vento gives a unique performance of Christian Köhler’s adaptation of the Requiem, which he has orchestrated for a 13-piece wind ensemble. The result is a reinterpretation of Mozart’s masterpiece which does not use the original Latin hymns, but instead a text by Jeroen Brouwers. Throughout his extensive oeuvre, this renowned author frequently reflects upon death. It was for this very reason that he was asked to formulate a literary response to Mozart’s masterpiece. He accepted the assignment. ‘In my view the whole of literature is about nothing but death... You can of course picture death as a soldier with a bayonet, but I have always tried to portray it as a beautiful but vicious woman, cruel and mean.’

text Jeroen Brouwers / music W.A. Mozart / adaptation Christian Köhler / image Roger Raveel / direction Josse De Pauw / scenography Herman Sorgeloos / play Tom Jansen / soprano  Iris Luypaers  / musical direction Francis Pollet / musical performance  I Solisti del Vento / video editing Jan Van Bael  / costume advisor Anne-Catherine Kunz 

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