Ravenna Festival
Requiem in do minore
direttore Riccardo Muti
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Orchestra Giovanile Italiana
Accademia di Musica dell’Università di Lubiana
Accademia di Musica dell’Università di Zagabria
Conservatorio “Giuseppe Tartini” di Trieste
La Stagione Armonica
Coro Accademico “France Preseren” di Kranj
Ensemble corale interprovinciale del Friuli
Sergio Balestracci maestro del coro
Andrej Misson (1960)
Libertas animi (2008)
Improvvisazione su un madrigale di Iacobus Gallus (1550-1591)
da Himna Evropske Slovenije (Inni alla Slovenia europea)
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Himna slobodi (1928)
dalla Pastorale per coro e orchestra Dubravka op. 13
su testi di Ivan Gunduliã
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Requiem in do minore per coro e orchestra (1816)
Eyewitnesses swore that, when Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor was first performed in the abbey of St. Denis, on Jan 21st, 1817, nobody could restrain tears, including the composer and conductor in his formal black suit. The Requiem had been commissioned by Louis xviii to commemorate his wretched brother, Louis xvi, executed more than twenty years earlier. But Cherubini did more than commemorate a dead king: he composed a powerfully dramatic mass that encompasses the pain and hope of humankind. Cherubini, a “conservative revolutionary”, managed to combine freedom of invention with the strictest laws of harmony and counterpoint into a Requiem Beethoven considered a superior composition to the Requiem of Mozart.