Event details

In this very special concert the University Choir, The 24 and University Symphony Orchestra will join forces in the historic setting of York Minster for Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor, and pieces from Bruckner and Elgar.

Alumni soloists Elspeth Piggott, Helen Neeves, Helena Cooke, James Beddoe, and Patrick Osborne, will all be performing on the night! Read about the soloists here.

Programme

Mozart   Mass in C minor, K. 427
Bruckner   Motets: Locus iste; Christus factus est
Bruckner   Te Deum in C, WAB 45
Elgar   Elegy, op. 58

About the pieces

First performed in Salzburg in 1783, Mozart’s Mass in C minor remained incomplete on the composer’s death in 1791. Nevertheless, the piece works wonderfully in concert and is widely considered to be one of Mozart’s greatest choral works.

The programme also includes a selection of works by Bruckner – following the two-hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth – including his great Te Deum in C which Bruckner described as ‘the pride of his life.’