Bard Music Festival
Mozart and Religion
August 12
Bard Music Festival
August 12
This program offers a sampling of Mozart’s sacred music, dating from God is Our Refuge, a motet composed at just nine years old, to his Ave verum corpus. These will be heard alongside Gregorio Allegri’s haunting Miserere, a work strictly guarded by the Vatican until Mozart transcribed it from memory as a child; J. S. Bach’s funeral motet Fürchte dich nicht; an Epiphany anthem by Mozart’s student Thomas Attwood, the organist of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral; and liturgical choral works by Joseph Haydn, with whom Mozart shared a close friendship and deep-seated mutual reverence.
7:30 pm • Performance: Bard Festival Ensemble and Chorale, conducted by James Bagwell, choral director
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)
God is Our Refuge, K20 (1765)
Gregorio Allegri (c. 1582–1652)
Miserere mei, Deus (1661)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228 (1726)
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Missa brevis in F, Hob. XXIII:1 (1749)
Thomas Attwood (1765–1838)
O God, Who by the Leading of a Star (1814)
First Presbyterian Church
369 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534
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