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Prom 33: Brahms's A German Requiem

Live at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: Richard Farnes conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in Musgrave's Phoenix Rising and are joined by the Symphony Chorus and soloists in Brahms's A German Requiem.

Live at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms, Richard Farnes conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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

Music Played

  • Thea Musgrave

    Phoenix Rising

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Farnes.
  • Johannes Brahms

    A German Requiem

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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

Role Contributor
Performer ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Performer ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 Aug 2018 19:30

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