A GERMAN REQUIEM
6:30pm, Sun, 23 Mar 2025
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Type of event: Concert Start time: 6:30pm Venue: St Mary's Church
2 Elsworthy Road
NW3 3DJDescription: SOLD OUT some tickets available for afternoon rehearsal on the day
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem
Sung in English
with Royal Free Music Society
Barnet Symphony Orchestra
Elinor Jane Moran soprano
Angus McPhee baritone
Deeply moving and profound, A German Requiem is central to our understanding of Brahms’s compositional personality and spiritual life. Behind its dramatic gestures and 19th century grandeur, it reveals Brahms’s obsessions with folk-songs and the music of the past. The libretto, assembled by Brahms himself from the Lutheran Bible, makes for a personal reflection with perhaps more of a focus on the living, rather than the dead. In contrast to many other oratorios of the 19th century Brahms places the choir at the heart of the work which I think makes the depiction of sorrow and consoling all the more powerful.
