Name: Brahms’s German Requiem
Start: 2024-01-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Verizon Hall

Organization

Admin

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Conductor

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Singer

Gil Shaham

Violin

Orchestra

Brahms’s German Requiem

Philadelphia

United States

Verizon Hall

Brahms’s German Requiem: Violin Concerto No. 2 Bates, Mason (+2 More)

Public

Violin Concerto No. 2

Oraison

A German Requiem

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

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Chorus master

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Choir

Poet

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Extra

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

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Contralto

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Baritone

Countertenor

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

From Mozart to Berlioz to Britten, great composers have poured their souls into settings of the requiem mass. Unique among them is Brahms’s utterly beautiful A German Requiem, written after the death of his mother, with its emphasis not on the dead, but on those left behind; not on loss, but on the joy of remembrance. From its opening phrase, “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted,” to its transporting finale of triumph and tranquility, it touches the hearts of all who hear it.

Written with the intention of being paired with Brahms’s Requiem, Cuban-Canadian composer Luis Ernesto Peña Laguna’s choral work Oraison was created in reaction to the COVID pandemic. Sung in four languages—French, Spanish, Latin, and English—it ends on a note of joyful hope as the chorus sings in French, “We emerge/Barefoot on the rosy meadows/At the first morning sun.”

Another cause for joy: There’s an extraordinary, palpable energy in the hall when musicians who have special regard for each other come together in performance. And that’s what you can expect when Yannick welcomes the preeminent violinist Gil Shaham back for the world premiere of Mason Bates’s Violin Concerto, a piece co-commissioned by the Orchestra. Bates’s “stunning, staggering, stupendous” (Classical Voice North America) Piano Concerto thrilled Philadelphia Orchestra audiences in 2022; now you can hear this heralded composer’s newest work with a violinist beloved by audiences around the world.

English

Brahms’s German Requiem by Bates, Mason, Peña Laguna, Brahms, From (2024/2024), Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, United States

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