Sunday 28 October 2007
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Brahms Begrabnisgesang, Op.13
Schütz Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (from Psalms of David)
Ahle, arr. Brahms Chorale Es ist genug from Cantata No.60
Bach Cantata No.60 ‘O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort’
Brahms German Requiem
Brahms’ Burial Song, Op.13, is a condensed tragic masterpiece much indebted to Bach, but is also an early sketch for the German Requiem – his most substantial work for chorus and orchestra. Schütz’s setting of Psalm 84 was well known to Brahms and inspired him to include his own setting of the same words in his Requiem.
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Monday 29 October 2007
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St Anthony)
Schubert Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern, D.714
Schubert, arr. Brahms Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D.583
Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op.53; Symphony No.1
Brahms’ extensive knowledge and admiration of his predecessors’ music influenced much of what he wrote. No other work illustrates his debt to 18th century wind instrument textures as his Variations on a Theme by Hadyn. His first symphony, which took him 14 years to complete, similarly shows clear influences from earlier Classical styles such as that of Schubert.
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