Open Rehearsal
6:15pm, Sun, 12 Jan 2025
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Type of event: Rehearsal Start time: 6:15pm End time: 9:00pm Venue: St Anne's Church
125 Salusbury Road
London NW6 6RGSee map below Description: Come and try us out. This will be our first rehearsal (so everyone will be starting from the same place!) for our performance of Brahms' German Requiem on 23rd March. Music will be provided, and refreshments!
Deeply moving and profound, A German Requiem is central to our understanding of Brahms’s compositional personality and spiritual life. Behind its dramatic gestures and 19th century grandeur, it reveals Brahms’s obsessions with folk-songs and the music of the past. The libretto, assembled by Brahms himself from the Lutheran Bible, makes for a personal reflexion with perhaps more of a focus on the living, rather than the dead. In contrast to many other oratorios of the 19th century Brahms places the choir at the heart of the work which I think makes the depiction of sorrow and consoling all the more powerful.
