Requiem

The autumn concert is in the spirit of the beautiful tradition of our opera company, which is the performance of large vocal-instrumental works, where the great choir and orchestra of Janáček's opera NdB can present themselves outside their classical opera repertoire. This time, it will be conducted by the new chief conductor Robert Kružík, and the evening will belong to one of Antonín Dvořák's exceptional works. His Requiem is one of the most beautiful arrangements of this mass for the dead, although in this case Antonín Dvořák was not inspired by death, but by a much more prosaic reason - the work was commissioned by a music festival in Birmingham, England, and it was Dvořák's London publisher who suggested the mass for the dead. Dvořák therefore conceived it more as a reflection and assessment of the past half century of his life and at the same time as an expression of his relationship with God. The Requiem, divided into two parts, is one of Dvořák's most profound works. Freed from external pomp and composed in a form without closed musical numbers, it is a confession of the composer's view of death.