The Hallé & Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

The Hallé and the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus join forces in an epic masterpiece of the large-scale Romantic choral tradition - Brahms's German Requiem. This eloquent work is full of extraordinarily beautiful music that provides comfort and consolation for the living, rather than mourning for the dead. Ewa Strusinska opens the concert with Beethoven's energetic First Symphony. Innovative in its time, the music's elegant restraint did not deceive conservative eighteenth-century Vienna, who rightly sensed a rough-edged revolutionary in their midst.