Brahms’ Requiem - Musikfest Bremen

In the organizer's words:

Utopia Orchestra
Utopia Choir (rehearsal: Vitaly Polonsky)
Iveta Simonyan soprano
Matthias Winckhler Baritone
Teodor Currentzis Conductor

Program:
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra op. 45

On April 10, 1868, Good Friday, music history was written in Bremen: Johannes Brahms gave the celebrated premiere of "Ein deutsches Requiem" in St. Peter's Cathedral. With this work, which was still in six movements at the time - he added the soprano solo shortly afterwards - Brahms made his breakthrough as an internationally recognized composer. With this milestone in Romantic choral music, he created a work of unique depth, with which he wanted to comfort the bereaved in particular. Large-scale choral works are a specialty of the Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis - just think of Mozart's Requiem at Musikfest Bremen 2017. Now he returns to the world premiere venue for Brahms' epochal masterpiece with the Utopia Choir and Orchestra, which brings together members of various international ensembles on a project basis to form a creative collective. Sounding out musical boundaries and making music at the extreme of expression are at the heart of Currentzis' brand. Between austerity and vitality on the one hand and asceticism and spirituality on the other, he creates worlds of sound full of dramatic outbursts and quiet contemplation that resonate for a long time ...

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