Voxcetera sings Brahms' Requiem: Brahms' gorgeous, consoling requiem performed with chamber ensemble. at St Michael's Church, London on Saturday 22nd March 2025

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Voxcetera sings Brahms' Requiem

Brahms' gorgeous, consoling requiem performed with chamber ensemble.

Add to my Calendar 22-03-2025 19:30 22-03-2025 21:30 36 Voxcetera sings Brahms' Requiem Voxcetera returns to St Michael’s Church, Highgate with one of the best-loved choral works, Brahms' gorgeous, moving Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem). Full of rich harmonies, its music evokes comfort, loss, fear, peace and even joy. Of the great, popular requiems, Brahms’ is celebrated as being less a mass for the dead than an offering of solace for those who mourn. Jane Hopkins conducts Voxcetera, with soprano Bethany Partridge and baritone Angus McPhee, and a chamber ensemble, using Iain Farrington’s exquisite arrangement of the score for eight players. It promises to be both a grand and intimate experience. The performance is the latest in Voxcetera’s series of concerts presenting smaller-scale renditions of big choral pieces, accompanied by small ensembles of players. Other such performances have included Faure’s Requiem, Saint-Saens’ Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass. The concert also features shorter works by James Whitbourn: Requiem Canticorum in which a soprano saxophone weaves hauntingly through sustained choral harmonies; and All Shall Be Amen And Alleluia, which sets soothing and joyous singing to bright shards of piano and triumphant organ. St Michael's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Michael's Church
South Grove
Highgate
London
N6 6BJ
England

Saturday 22nd March 2025
7:30 PM

Programme

Johannes Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45
James Whitbourn – All shall be Amen and Alleluia
James Whitbourn – Requiem Canticorum

Performers

Bethany Partridge – soprano
Angus McPhee – baritone
Jane Hopkins – Conductor
Martyn Noble – piano
Paul Dean – organ

Voxcetera

Programme Note

Voxcetera returns to St Michael’s Church, Highgate with one of the best-loved choral works, Brahms' gorgeous, moving Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem).

Full of rich harmonies, its music evokes comfort, loss, fear, peace and even joy. Of the great, popular requiems, Brahms’ is celebrated as being less a mass for the dead than an offering of solace for those who mourn.

Jane Hopkins conducts Voxcetera, with soprano Bethany Partridge and baritone Angus McPhee, and a chamber ensemble, using Iain Farrington’s exquisite arrangement of the score for eight players. It promises to be both a grand and intimate experience. The performance is the latest in Voxcetera’s series of concerts presenting smaller-scale renditions of big choral pieces, accompanied by small ensembles of players. Other such performances have included Faure’s Requiem, Saint-Saens’ Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass.

The concert also features shorter works by James Whitbourn: Requiem Canticorum in which a soprano saxophone weaves hauntingly through sustained choral harmonies; and All Shall Be Amen And Alleluia, which sets soothing and joyous singing to bright shards of piano and triumphant organ.

Voxcetera performing at St Michael's Church, Highgate

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