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Sakari Oramo conducts Brahms

Sakari Oramo, the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Brahms鈥檚 German Requiem, plus emotionally charged postwar rediscoveries from Finland by Rautavaara and Aulis Sallinen.

Sakari Oramo, the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Brahms鈥檚 German Requiem, plus emotionally charged postwar rediscoveries from Finland by Rautavaara and Aulis Sallinen.

鈥淏lessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted鈥�. Johannes Brahms was not a believer, and as he composed his German Requiem, he set out to console and comfort the living. The result is one of the most beautiful, most moving and 鈥� in its own way - most profoundly spiritual choral works of the 19th century.

But there鈥檚 more than one way to tell any story, and Oramo has chosen to proceed Brahms鈥檚 masterpiece with two songs of protest and loss from his native Finland. In Requiem for Our Time, the late Einojuhani Rautavaara mourns his mother with drums and trumpets, while Aulis Sallinen chips away at the Berlin Wall in music of quiet but implacable power. The accent is unfamiliar, but the emotion is universal.

Recorded at the Barbican on Friday 8th March 2024. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Einojuhani Rautavaara: A Requiem in Our Time, op. 3
Aulis Sallinen: Mauermusik

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Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem

Anu Komsi (soprano)
Christian Senn (baritone)
大象传媒 Symphony Chorus
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

2 hours, 14 minutes

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Thu 4 Apr 2024 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    A Requiem in our Time (1953)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Aulis Sallinen

    Mauermusik (Wall Music) Op.7 (1962)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Ruth Alm茅n

    Piano Sonata No.2 in B Minor

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DB Productions.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)

    Singer: Anu Komsi. Singer: Christian Senn. Choir: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Suite for flute and piano, Op 34

    Performer: Jeffrey Khaner. Performer: Hugh Sung.
    • The Romantic Flute: Jeffrey Khaner.
    • Avie.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 4 Apr 2024 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3