Brahms Festival: Spring Gala
Hamer Hall, Melbourne
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Hamer Hall, Melbourne
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Sir Bryn Terfel opens the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Spring Gala with a selection of spiritual works to set the scene for the transcendant choral work to come. Then, the Brahms Festival culminates with one of the most moving tributes to grief and remembrance, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. Brahms called it this to distinguish it from the Latin kind, to lift it from the merely religious, making of it something humanist and secular. A German requiem was not specifically for the German people; Brahms’ wanted it to speak to all humanity.
Source: whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au