Programme Note
Composer note:
Scholars have long debated why Mozart never completed this masterpiece....Another lingering question about Mozart's mass concerns what provisions were made for its missing portions (parts of the
Credo and the entire
Agnus Dei) at the Salzburg premiere....I cast the
Agnus Dei in a modified sonata form....I [also] used three of Mozart's own melodies from the mass....My
Agnus Dei is a synthesis of three stylistic worlds: Medieval, Classical and Contemporary. All themes, styles and performing forces join at the end in a tranquil, extended canonic setting of words which continue to be appropriate for our own troubled times: Dona nobis pacem.
— Robert X. Rodríguez