Chester Music Society Choir: Celebrating Brahms at Chester Cathedral, Chester on Saturday 25th March 2023

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Chester Music Society Choir

Celebrating Brahms

Part of the Chester Music Society 2022-23 Season

Add to my Calendar 25-03-2023 19:30 25-03-2023 21:30 36 Chester Music Society Choir A German Requiem, by Johannes Brahms, is a large-scale work for chorus and orchestra, with soprano and baritone soloists. It comprises seven movements, which together last 65 to 80 minutes, making this work Brahms's longest composition. A German Requiem is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin Requiem, A German Requiem is, as its title states, sung in German..The Song of Destiny (Schicksalslied) is an orchestrally accompanied chorale and is one of several major choral works written by Brahms. Schicksalslied is considered to be one of his best choral works, along with Ein deutsches Requiem (also performed this evening). It is one of the shortest of Brahms's major choral works.The concert begins with his Tragic Overture, a concert overture for orchestra written during the summer of 1880. Brahms chose the title "Tragic" to emphasize the turbulent, tormented character of the piece, in essence a free-standing symphonic movement. Chester Cathedral, Chester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Chester Cathedral
Saint Werburgh Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2DY
England

Saturday 25th March 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Johannes Brahms – A German Requiem, Op.45
Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture, Op.81
Johannes Brahms – Schicksalslied, Op.54

Performers

Linda Richardson – soprano
Damian O'Keeffe – baritone
Graham Jordan Ellis – Conductor

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Programme Note

A German Requiem, by Johannes Brahms, is a large-scale work for chorus and orchestra, with soprano and baritone soloists. It comprises seven movements, which together last 65 to 80 minutes, making this work Brahms's longest composition. A German Requiem is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin Requiem, A German Requiem is, as its title states, sung in German..
The Song of Destiny (Schicksalslied) is an orchestrally accompanied chorale and is one of several major choral works written by Brahms. Schicksalslied is considered to be one of his best choral works, along with Ein deutsches Requiem (also performed this evening). It is one of the shortest of Brahms's major choral works.
The concert begins with his Tragic Overture, a concert overture for orchestra written during the summer of 1880. Brahms chose the title "Tragic" to emphasize the turbulent, tormented character of the piece, in essence a free-standing symphonic movement.

Johannes Brahms – A German Requiem, Op.45

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