Prom 33: Brahms's A German Requiem

7 Aug 2018, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Tue 7 Aug 2018 Next Event

Proms 2018 Prom 33: Brahms's A German Requiem

19:30 Tue 7 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall

Richard Farnes conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter in Brahms鈥檚 much-loved Requiem. Marking Thea Musgrave鈥檚 90th birthday, the performance opens with her dramatic Phoenix Rising.

Performances & Interviews

20:42

Proms Plus Interval: A German Requiem

Revd Lucy Winkett and Katy Hamilton join Ian Skelly before Prom 33: A German Requiem.

Aug '18大象传媒 Radio 3

45:00

Thea Musgrave

Tom Service talks to composer Thea Musgrave.

Jul '15大象传媒 Radio 3

Programme

- - Thea Musgrave
  - Phoenix Rising(23 mins)
- - interval
- - Johannes Brahms
  - A German Requiem(68 mins)

Performers

Composers

About This Event

Inspired by the death of his mother, Brahms鈥檚 tender, consoling A German Requiem couldn鈥檛 be further from Verdi鈥檚 and Berlioz鈥檚 settings of the standard Latin Mass text. It鈥檚 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 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, along with soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter.

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

Broadcast on 大象传媒 Four on Friday 10 August

Image: Johan Reuter 漏 Miklos Szabo