The Philadelphia Orchestra by Brahms, De (2024/2024), Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Estados Unidos

Sunday afternoon’s season finale puts the UMS Choral Union on display with Johannes Brahms, who poured his soul into his utterly personal German Requiem, which was composed after the death of his mother. Unlike previous requiem masses by Mozart and Berlioz, which were set in a Catholic, Latin text and focused on loss and those who had died, Brahms used excerpts from the Lutheran Bible to create a requiem that offers comfort to those left behind and celebrates the joy of remembrance.