Two major choral works will be performed on Thursday 2 November 2023 in Helsingborg’s concert hall: a well-known Swedish contemporary composer in a concert program with the most brilliant composers of the late 18th century – Karin Rehnqvist, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart respectively.
Karin Rehnqvist’s Silent Earth will be performed here together with W A Mozart’s Requiem.
It will be the second time the powerful climate oratorio Silent Earth is performed in this country (after the Swedish premiere in Berwaldhallen August 2022; the first premiere was in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, January 2022). To Kerstin Perski’s lyrics, humanity is heard calling out to the destroyed Earth: “Save yourself from us! Save yourself from ourselves!”.
And as one observes in Helsingborg: The step is not far to Mozart’s “Lord, have mercy” or the wild-tempered “Dies Irae” movement.
There will be a full lineup on Helsingborg’s concert hall stage this evening: Helsingborg’s Concert Choir (one of the few remaining in Sweden) together with the soloists Karolina Bengtsson, soprano, Emma Sventelius, mezzo-soprano, Martin Hultkvist, tenor, and Luthando Qave, bass, as well as Helsingborg’s Symphony Orchestra. All conducted by Peter Szilvay from Norway.
Karin Rehnqvist (b. 1957): Silent Earth for mixed choir and symphony orchestra, with texts by Kerstin Perski. Composed in 2020.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1750–1791): Requiem, K. 626. Composed in 1791, supplemented by Franz Xaver Süßmayr.
