Mozart Requiem in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw tonight to commemorate the death on 17th October 1849 of that great musical genius Fryderyk Chopin.

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The Mozart Requiem was performed in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw tonight to commemorate the death of that great musical genius Fryderyk Chopin.

How desperately we need the consolation of hope that lies within his music in these terrible times that suffocate the creative spirit …

Watercolour and pencil drawing of Chopin on his death bed by Teofil Kwiatkowski. The painter was a witness to his last hours and death and drew a number of likenesses

The plinth in which the heart of Fryderyk Chopin has been laid 
Holy Cross Church, Warsaw

The grave of Fryderyk Chopin in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise Paris 

Today was the 177th anniversary of Chopin's death in Paris at two in the morning on 17 October 1849. This immortal work was performed at his funeral at his request. He always felt himself close to Mozart and admired his music above all excepting that of Bach. This single death took me once again on a journey towards the universality of this dark or mystery of light.

This work takes you into the realms of the deepest conception of mortality (especially now, in real time, with our constant sight of daily horror, death and destruction in the Ukraine conflict, the war in Iran, millions displaced in Sudan, the scattered entrails of the authentic hell of Gaza and now violence of the streets of France and Albania. 

Yes, the universality of death comes to us all but never seems not to dissuade some national leaders from embracing it repetitively and murderously with vengeance.

These realms of internal feeling are not touched in such an intimate manner as tonight by the customary massive orchestral/choir original score, that work of immense, tragic grandeur we are all familiar with, the masterpiece known as Mozart's Requiem. 

My imagination and human empathy were moved beyond calculation into the fluid landscape of human emotion and suffering in the face of death, taken there by the consoling universality of Mozart and Chopin, their sublime music, destiny and expression of grief.  And tonight the element of the betrayal of Judas in the Garden of Eden additionally entered the portrait of Ukrainian horror.

There were some extraordinary moments where expressive polyphony, cantabile phrasing and internal details not normally heard, came poignantly into the musical foreground. 

Please consider this:

https://sklep.nifc.pl/en/produkt/77398-mozart-requiem-for-piano-solo