Goldsmiths Choral Union - Mozart's Requiem

Mozart's Requiem for Remembrance Sunday is paired with Haydn and Schubert's equally moving works.

Join us on Remembrance Sunday at Smith Square Hall for a powerful and reflective performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Written at the end of his life, this extraordinary work remains one of the most profound expressions of grief, consolation, and hope in all music. The Requiem was unfinished at the time of Mozart’s death, and this version was expertly completed by Robert Levin in 1996. His goal was to place the voices at the expressive centre of the piece, and to thin out the heavy orchestration found in the familiar Süssmayr edition.

The programme places the Requiem alongside contrasting yet complementary works: Haydn’s dramatic cantata Arianna a Naxos, portraying abandonment and despair; Mozart’s joyful Regina Coeli, full of youthful brilliance; and Schubert’s intimate Stabat Mater, a meditation on sorrow and compassion.

Together, these works create a moving journey through loss, faith, and renewal—especially resonant on a day of national remembrance.