Mozart’s haunting Lacrimosa. 🖤 One of the most celebrated choral works in classical music, the ‘Lacrimosa’, meaning ‘weeping’, is part of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass (a mass for the dead), reflecting grief, the plea for mercy, and the hope for eternal rest on the day of judgment. It is performed here by the Bach Choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Anthony Gabriele at Classic FM Live. The story of Mozart’s Requiem was famously dramatised in Peter Shaffer’s play and fil