Name: Classical Series - Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem
Start: 2024-01-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Jones Hall for the Performing Arts

Organization

Conductor

Juraj Valčuha

Singer

Soprano

Lauren Snouffer

Baritone

Andrew Foster-Williams

Chorus master

Allen Hightower

Orchestra

Houston Symphony

Others

Houston Symphony Chorus

Classical Series - Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem

Houston

United States

Jones Hall for the Performing Arts

Classical Series - Takemitsu + Brahms’s Requiem: Requiem Toru Takemitsu (+1 More)

Public

Requiem

A German Requiem

Anna-Maria Gkouni

Approved

Music Director Juraj Valčuha leads Brahms’s extraordinary A German Requiem. Written during a time of personal grief for Brahms, the Requiem offers music of time-altering beauty as a balm of comfort, peace, and uplifting hope to those experiencing grief and loss. The concerts open with Tōru Takemitsu’s emotionally powerful Requiem for strings.

In the Composer’s Words:
The full title of Brahms’s Requiem (A German Requiem) refers to the fact that the text is sung in Brahms’s native German, instead of Latin, as was traditional. In a letter to a friend Brahms confessed, “I admit that I could happily omit the ‘German’ and simply say ‘Human.’

Juraj Valčuha
conductor

Lauren Snouffer
soprano

Andrew Foster-Williams
baritone

Houston Symphony Chorus
Allen Hightower, director

English

Forestillingkreditter (Ensemble & produksjonsteam )

Ensemble