Name: Mendelssohn and Brahms with the Berlin Philharmonic
Start: 2022-03-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Berliner Philharmonie

Organization

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Soprano

Lucy Crowe

Mezzo-soprano

Ann Hallenberg

Tenor

Werner Güra

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Others

Monteverdi Choir

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

Mendelssohn and Brahms with the Berlin Philharmonic

Berlin

Germany

Berliner Philharmonie

Großer Saal

Mendelssohn and Brahms with the Berlin Philharmonic: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Approved

Brahms composed the Schicksalslied (Song of Fate) between 1868 and 1871 - a period of prolific composing for chorus and orchestra, which also saw the completion of Rinaldo, the Alto Rhapsody, and the Triumphlied. It is a choral setting of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poem ‘Hyperions Schicksalslied’, which pits the blissful serenity of the gods above against the hurlyburly of human life below. Throughout the work Brahms creates subtle effects of orchestral colouration to complement the chorus and to amplify the text, but ends with a purely orchestral coda - ‘I even say something that the poet does not say’, Brahms remarked.

Composed during his time in Leipzig, Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony ‘Lobgesang’ (‘Hymn of Praise’) takes the hybrid form of a Symphony-Cantata, blending secular and sacred styles and taking the audience on a spiritual journey to enlightenment. Melodious choruses, duets and arias trace a path leading from darkness into a radiant vision of a better world.

English

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Ensemble

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