BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM
FEB 9-11, 2024 | Music Hall
Louis Langrée leads the CSO and the May Festival Chorus in Brahms’ A German Requiem.
Program
BRAHMS: Ein Deutsches Requiem ("A German Requiem")
Artists
Louis Langrée, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Will Liverman, baritone
May Festival Chorus
Venue
Music HallSeries
Friday Evening, Saturday Evening B & Saturday Evening C (Sunday Performance)
What's Interesting
With prayerful music for both the living and the dead, the source of comfort in Brahms’ German Requiem is as much human as it is the divine. Louis Langrée leads the CSO along with the May Festival Chorus in Brahms’ large-scale masterpiece. Though Brahms was often discreet in nature, this is a deeply personal work. Spurred by the loss of his mother, and influenced by lingering emotions of self-doubt, he turned to his true religion – music – as a way to console not only himself, but others as well.