Since his return to Manhattan last fall, Justin Bischof has been achieving impressive work in choral and orchestral concerts at the Church of the Epiphany. These have extended from masterpieces of Palestrina and Byrd to Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony. In the course of these powerful and impeccably executed performances, he has brought together an outstanding chorus and chamber orchestra. All this, as well as around New York and in Oman, where he performs as conductor and organist several times a year.
Justin Bischof will close the season of the Friends of Music at the Epiphany with Mozart’s Requiem. This should be a moving performance, as well as a muscular, clearly defined and structured one. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear a fully-realized playing of this beloved work!
For more about the Requiem and its background, see the present Author’s “The Music of Mozart’s Last Months: La Clemenza di Tito at Emmanuel, Die Zauberflöte at Salzburg under Furtwängler, 1951, and Beecham’s Requiem from Pristine” and “Mozart’s Requiem Revealed: Georg Friedrich Haas’s 7 Klangräume zu Mozarts Requiem played by the Argento Contemporary Ensemble, Michel Galante, conductor, with the Andante for flute and orchestra, K. 315 with Paula Robison“
