[...]
Oskar Morawetz's Tribute to W.A. Mozart was the commissioned
homage. Some 18 minutes in length, it is a slow, single-movement
rhapsody on three themes from the Requiem. Embittered in spirit
and conservatively anguished in harmonic language, it is lyrical and
traditionally conceived throughout.
Occasionally a familiar snatch of Mozart's Mass would come to the fore,
but generally the 18th-century composer's profound simplicity was hidden
within the post-Bartokian craft and sober high purpose of the respected
senior Canadian composer.
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