Brahms German Requiem and music of the romantic era

Saturday 14th March 2026, 7.30pm

St Mary's Church, Richmond DL10 7AQ

Brahms German Requiem and music of the romantic era.
Conductor: Ben Noble
Fae Evelyn (Soprano) and Tom Asher (Baritone)
Pianists Andrew Christer and Alison Gill
The Requiem to be sung in English.

Markers on the road to A German Requiem were the deaths of Brahms’s mentor Robert Schumann and then Brahms’s mother in 1865. Greatly burdened by Schumann’s acclamation and conflicted by love for Schumann’s wife Clara, Brahms felt an urgent need to respond to the older composer’s death. He began to plan a musical memorial, not a Latin mass for the dead, but instead a vernacular German requiem using poetry as well as biblical texts; he might have called it A Human Requiem.

It is a radiant, joy-filled work devoid of the usual fire and brimstone, instead highlighting comfort and hope. It has a beautifully balanced musical structure of seven movements; the best-known chorus 'How lovely are your dwelling places' occurring midway through. 

Our soloists, Soprano Fae Evelyn, and Baritone Tom Asher together with accompanists Andrew Christer and Alison Gill will perform complementary works.

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Adults £15, Students £3, accompanied children free.