José Cura
Requiem Aeternam
"I am a composer and conductor whom fate has blessed with a notable singing voice," is how José Cura described himself a few years ago. This concert will be a performance of his 1984 work Requiem Aeternam, written in memory of the victims of the Falklands War fought between Argentina and the United Kingdom two years previously. Cura wrote the piece to be performed by two choirs, one Argentine and the other British, as a symbol of peace. Singing it this time will be two wonderful Hungarian ensembles: the Hungarian Radio Choir and the Hungarian National Choir.
"It is a difficult task to define José Cura's music, which is simultaneously personal and universal, from a stylistic perspective," writes Mario De Rose. "Cura does not base his music on preconfigured elements in order to create dialogue. On the contrary, the dialogue is created by the need for expression: it is not the means that determines the music. Instead the music uses the means. The use of different compositional techniques depends on what needs to be expressed, and this makes Cura's music a new yet familiar experience that moves the listener through its pathos." Cura himself believes that, when it comes to modern music, we usually "misunderstand the word contemporary and identify it only with the musical revolution that began about a hundred years ago, and so we think that everything that has been written since 1900 can only be violent, atonal, polytonal, dodecaphonic, minimalist, experimental or electronic, and nothing else."
Presented by: Hungarian Radio Art Groups
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