Archive 2009

SAT 26. SEP 2009, 8:30 p.m.

Belief, Love, Hope, but no Salvation

Stiftskirche St. Johann Baptist und Petrus

• Philip Moll (Piano)
• Philip Mayers (Piano)
• Rundfunkchor Berlin
• Simon Halsey (Conductor)
• Sophie Klußmann (Soprano)
• Sören von Billerbeck (Baritone)

• Johannes Brahms: »A German Requiem« op. 45 , Fassung für Klavier vierhändig von Johannes Brahms in einer Bearbeitung von Philip Moll

Belief, Love, Hope, but no Salvation

In Romanticism many Baroque choral works were »revived«, including by Johannes Brahms. His affinity to Handel is more than clear in many aspects: at the world premiere of six finished pieces of the »German Requiem« in Bremen in 1868 he inserted the aria »I know that my Redeemer liveth« from Handel’s »Messiah« after the fourth movement in order to compensate for the »missing« thought of salvation; the complete world premiere with all seven parts was not performed until almost a year later in Leipzig. The popular »German Requiem« can be heard at the Beethovenfest Bonn in a version for two pianos and choir arranged by Brahms himself, however without Handel’s Messiah composition.

Additional Information:
Deutsche Welle Festival Concert.
Readers’ concert of the General Anzeiger.

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