Requiem de Mozart / Boléro de Ravel

RAVEL'S BOLÉRO Boléro is the most-performed classical music work in the world with a performance every 15 minutes. At its premiere, the composer gave copyright to his gardener without foreseeing its public success. This work is the ostinato archetype. The melody is taken up in turn by various orchestra instruments over a percussion rhythm formula.

MOZART'S REQUIEM The particular circumstances of this work's commission and tragic conditions of its writing on its author's deathbed fuel the legend. In July 1791, Count Walsegg-Stuppach, under secrecy, commissioned a Requiem from Mozart for his wife, who died in February. Work was postponed to October due to overwork the composer was experiencing with La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute. At Mozart's death, Requiem remained unfinished work. In his illness's final phase, Mozart wrote the entire Requiem aeternam: from Kyrie to Confutatis, only vocal parts and continuo bass were written. For Lacrimosa, only the first eight measures of the voice and first two measures of violin and viola parts. Sketches of additional pieces were lost. While bedridden, friends came to sing Requiem parts at his bedside.

Concerts Hélios

Concerts Hélios is a musical production company dedicated to distributing classical and sacred music in exceptional heritage venues, primarily Paris. Founded with the will to make classical music vibrant, accessible, and profoundly human, Concerts Hélios brings together high-level professional musicians around emblematic programs: great masterpieces of the repertoire, seasonal concerts, sacred music, symphonic and choral works. Each concert is conceived as an immersive experience where artistic excellence meets venues' beauty...