MOZART MAGIC

Brooklyn Theatre is hosting Mozart’s Requiem for Easter Sunday where Wessel van Wyk and Willem de Beer will join forces for the first time.

Having unearthed this arrangement of Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626 by the still-feared-by-aspiring-pianists Carl Czerny, Brooklyn Theatre is taking another step towards educating and entertaining with unique musical experiences.

Czerny approaches each movement a bit differently (and he arguably improves the movements completed by Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Süssmayr).

There are echoes of Beethoven in the big Rex tremendae and elsewhere, while the Benedictus seems to resemble a song by Schubert or, more likely, one of the lesser lieder composers.