Richard Farnes conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra live at London’s Royal Albert Hall on August 7. The orchestra will perform Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising; as the BBC Symphony Chorus and soloists join for Brahms's A German Requiem. Not just enchanting, this would be evocative too.The performance conducted by Richard Farnes will have Golda Schultz-soprano, Johan Reuter- baritone , BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Symphony Orchestra. During the interval Ian Skelly introduces the audience to Brahms's Requiem.Brahms’s tender, consoling Requiem was inspired by the death of his mother, and this could not be further from the settings of Verdi’s and Berlioz’s standard Latin Mass text. It’s the first of three Requiems this season that marks 100 years since the end of World War I, states the Royal Albert website.Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem, known as Ein deutsches Requiem, nach Worten der heiligen Schrift in German, is a large-scale work for orchestra, chorus, a soprano and a baritone soloist. It is believed that the work was composed between 1865 and 1868. It comprises o total of seven movements, which together last 65 to 80 minutes. This makes it Brahms's longest composition. Though sacred by the virtue of its content, A German Requiem is non-liturgical, and dissimilar to the long tradition of the Latin Requiem, A German Requiem, does not follow the antiquated tradition of requiems but is rather improvisational in nature.Not so long ago, The New York Times in its review of “A German Requiem” stated that the requiem has become something of an anthem for our time, with profound social and political reverberations. Yet, for Johannes Brahms the work sprouted from his deeply personal motives. The idea of composing a requiem had occurred to the young Brahms in 1854, when Robert Schumann, his newfound compositional father figure, attempted to commit suicide. Music historians are of the opinion that Brahms discovered the title “Ein Deutsches Requiem” among manuscripts left by Schumann. Initially, A German Requiem had six movements for baritone soloist, chorus and orchestra. It first premiered in 1868, but Brahms felt the need of adding a seventh movement, that was for soprano, with the words “I will comfort you as one whom his own mother comforteth.”Thea Musgrave’s “Phoenix Rising” marks the Scottish composer’s 90th birthday this year. It traces a journey from darkness to light, depicting the ensuing conflicts spatially and musically. “Phoenix Rising” is among some of Musgrave’s most dramatic writing. The composer has written many notable theatre works and more than a dozen operas. Most of Musgrave’s work has a historical figure as its central character, like Mary Queen of Scots , Harriet Tubman, Simon Bolivar and Pontalba.The concert is on August 7, 2018 at Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2APFor details, visit https://www.royalalberthall.comhttp://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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