Philharmonia Orchestra: Dohnányi conducts in London

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Dohnányi conducts in London

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 16 Feb 2012 7:30pm

Christoph von Dohnányi

conductor

Susan Gritton

soprano

Thomas Hampson

baritone

Philharmonia Chorus

Beethoven

Symphony No. 4

Brahms

A German Requiem

Also this evening :

MMSF recital: Benjamin Baker

"The still point of the turning world": Music that defines an era is supported by

Brahms first considered writing a Requiem Mass after the death of his close friend Robert Schumann, but was only catapulted into its composition a decade later after the death of his mother caused him inconsolable grief. He completed his tribute to her four years later with a mass unlike any conventional Requiem. Conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi, Ein deutsches Requiem sets sections of Luther’s translation of the Bible, dwelling far more on the hope of the resurrection than on the fear of Judgement Day. The first movement, ‘Blessed are they that mourn’, consoles those that remain on Earth with achingly beautiful suspensions from the chorus; the work moves through divinely beautiful music to the dramatic highlight of Brahms’s tone-painting of the resurrection of the dead. Yet the work ends back on an earthly level, a reminder that we cannot know what awaits us.

This concert is part of the Philharmonia's series "The still point of the turning world": Music that defines an era

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