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Echoes of the Divine with Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society
Ein Deutsches Requiem
Part of the Sheringham & Cromer Choral Society 2025 - 2026 Series
Add to my Calendar 11-07-2026 18:00 11-07-2026 20:00 36 Echoes of the Divine with Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society Composed between 1865 and 1868, Ein Deutsches Requiem is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin Requiem Ein Deutsches Requiem, as its title states, is set in the German language. It may well have been inspired by the recent death of Brahm’s mother. Tonight’s performance is in a version accompanied by 4 handed piano. Written between 1906 and 1911, Five Mystical Songs sets four poems by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester with Vaughan Williams himself conducting. Im Abendrot (At Sunset) is one of the Four Last Songs written by Richard Strauss in 1948 at the age of 84. Universally considered among the composer’s most beautiful, profound, and human works, Strauss’s Four Last Songs were among his last compositions and served as a final love letter to his wife of nearly 60 years, the soprano Pauline de Ahna.The title was provided posthumously by Strauss’s friend Ernst Roth, who published the four songs as a single unit in 1950. Binham Priory, Binham DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Binham Priory
Warham Road
Binham
Norfolk
NR21 0DQ
England
Tickets
Prices: £20 under 18's and Care-givers free
Book Tickets
Programme
Ralph Vaughan Williams – 5 Mystical Songs
Richard Strauss – Im Abendrot (from Four Last Songs)
~ Interval ~
Johannes Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45
Performers
Alexandra Bryant – soprano
Robert Gildon – baritone
Elizabeth Stacey – piano
John Stephens – piano
David Ballard – Conductor
Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society
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Programme Note
Composed between 1865 and 1868, Ein Deutsches Requiem is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin Requiem Ein Deutsches Requiem, as its title states, is set in the German language. It may well have been inspired by the recent death of Brahm’s mother. Tonight’s performance is in a version accompanied by 4 handed piano.
Written between 1906 and 1911, Five Mystical Songs sets four poems by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester with Vaughan Williams himself conducting.
Im Abendrot (At Sunset) is one of the Four Last Songs written by Richard Strauss in 1948 at the age of 84. Universally considered among the composer’s most beautiful, profound, and human works, Strauss’s Four Last Songs were among his last compositions and served as a final love letter to his wife of nearly 60 years, the soprano Pauline de Ahna.The title was provided posthumously by Strauss’s friend Ernst Roth, who published the four songs as a single unit in 1950.
