Hidden Voices: the World of Johannes Brahms - Londinium (chamber choir)

With the exception of the German Requiem, Brahms' choral music has never attained the renown of his beloved symphonies, concertos and chamber works. Yet his choral writing is masterful, full of insight into his musical personality and his wide-ranging interests and influences. Londinium explores this unfairly neglected body of music - including the exquisite, elusive Fünf Gesänge op.104 and the virtuosic Fest- und Gedenksprüche - alongside music from his personal library, by Gabrieli, Eccard, and Schütz, and works by Brahms' close friend Robert Schumann, and his contemporary Peter Cornelius. Londinium will also give the first performance of a new work by Timothy Burke, Distanz und ein bestimmtes Licht (‘Distance and a Certain Light’), which was inspired by Fünf Gesänge and written especially for this concert.