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Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem - Strauss Four Last Songs

When
Friday October 21, 2016 at 19:30
Where
Barbican Hall, London
Tickets
£28, £24, £18, £12.50. Full time students 21 and under half price.
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  1. Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) Op 45 - Johannes Brahms
  2. Four Last Songs - Richard Strauss
  3. The silver swan - Orlando Gibbons

Crouch End Festival Chorus presents ‘Swan Song’, a moving meditation on the end of life, with soprano Erica Eloff and baritone Benjamin Appl, a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Orlando Gibbons’s wistful madrigal The Silver Swan, based on the myth that the swan only sings when death is near, contrasts with the warm, autumnal glow of Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss, sung here in German by Erica Eloff.

Brahms was no stranger to personal tragedy when he composed his German Requiem, having experienced both the loss of his mother and the tragic demise of his friend and mentor Robert Schumann. The result is an uplifting masterpiece which focuses as much on consoling the living as contemplating the dead.


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