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Prom 33: Brahms's A German Requiem

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2018

Live at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Richard Farnes conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra in Musgrave's Phoenix Rising and are joined by the Symphony Chorus and soloists in Brahms's A German Requiem.

Live at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms, Richard Farnes conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra in Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus and soloists join for Brahms's German Requiem.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Thea Musgrave: Phoenix Rising

Interval: Proms Plus:
Presenter Ian Skelly introduces Brahms' 'A German Requiem', together with Reverend Lucy Winkett. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

Brahms: A German Requiem

Golda Schultz (soprano)
Johan Reuter (baritone)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Richard Farnes (conductor)

Inspired by the death of his mother, Brahms's tender, consoling A German Requiem couldn't be further from Verdi's and Berlioz's settings of the standard Latin Mass text. It's the first of three Requiems this season marking 100 years since the end of the First World War.

Richard Farnes makes his Proms debut directing the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, along with soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter.

Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising (marking the composer's 90th birthday this year) also traces a journey from darkness to light -enacting the conflict both spatially and musically- in some of the composer's most dramatic writing.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 7 Aug 2018 19:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Thea Musgrave

    Phoenix Rising

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Farnes.

  • Johannes Brahms

    A German Requiem

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fugue on the name B.A.C.H., Op 60 No 1

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Royal Albert Hall Organ Restored: Simon Preston.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fugue on the name B.A.C.H., Op 60 No 2

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Royal Albert Hall Organ Restored: Simon Preston.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fugue on the name B.A.C.H., Op 60 No 3

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Royal Albert Hall Organ Restored: Simon Preston.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fugue on the name B.A.C.H., Op 60 No 4

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Royal Albert Hall Organ Restored: Simon Preston.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.

  • Robert Schumann

    6 Fugues on the name BACH Op.60 (no.5)

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Royal Albert Hall Organ Restored: Simon Preston.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fugue on the name B.A.C.H., Op 60 No 6

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Royal Albert Hall Organ Restored: Simon Preston.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.

Credits

Performer Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Performer Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 Aug 2018 19:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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