Brahms Requiem

Monday
04
March
£16-£35
7.30PM
Barbican Hall i
Brahms Requiem
Richard Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Johannes Brahms A German Requiem
London Concert Choir with Canticum
Claire Seaton soprano
Thomas Humphreys baritone
Mark Forkgen conductor

Brahms wrote the German Requiem, one of the truly great choral masterworks, not as a Mass for the Dead, but to comfort the living. He himself chose texts from Luther’s translation of the Bible contrasting the transience of human life with the everlasting nature of God and the joy of the world to come. Partly inspired by the death of the young composer’s mother, the Requiem evolved over a period of twelve years and was completed in 1868, when Brahms was 36. 

Richard Strauss was only 25 when he composed his orchestral tone poem about an elderly man whose journey through life and struggle with death end in peace as his soul finally achieves perfection. On his own deathbed 60 years later, Strauss remarked, “Dying is just as I composed it.”



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