Hackney Singers: Brahms's Requiem

Hackney Singers present one of the world’s great choral works, Brahms’s epic masterpiece Ein deutsches Requiem. Sung in German, Brahms’s lyrical and uplifting Requiem brilliantly melds classical structure and romantic harmony. The libretto is unusual for a requiem in that it was not intended as a religious mass for the dead, but rather as a secular work of comfort and consolation for the living.

Accompanied by leading community orchestra the Forest Philharmonic, under the baton of Dan Ludford-Thomas, the concert opens in dramatic style with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, celebrating the veneration with which Beethoven was held by Brahms; in his home, he composed under the watchful eye of a marble bust of Beethoven.

This is set to be an evening of inspiring and powerful music, in the Georgian splendour of St John at Hackney.