More Information About Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

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Program:
Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Gustav Mahler: Lieder Eine fahrenden Gesellen
Franz Schubert: Fantasia in F minor (Op.103, D. 940) <p>Musica Sacra Chorus
Kent Tritle, Conductor</p> <p>Leslie Fagan, Soprano
John Michael Moore, Baritone
Margo Garrett, Pianist
Sunglee Victoria Choi, Pianist, Winner of the 2009 Sorel Medallion for Piano Collaboration</p> <p>Johannes Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem stands as one of choral music’s most consoling and uplifting testaments. Brahms was moved to compile the text for this “human requiem,” soon after the death of his own mother. This intimate and personal expression comes to light as Musica Sacra performs it in Brahms’s own version for accompaniment of four-hand piano. Expertly conceived, this version brings out the sparkling clarity and brilliance of Brahms’s writing for the chorus. Sunglee Victoria Choi, the winner of the 2009 Sorel Foundation Collaborative Piano Competition, makes her debut with this performance, joining the highly-regarded pianist Margo Garrett.</p> <p>The Mahler Lieder will be sung by John Michael Moore with Sunglee Victoria Choi as accompanist.</p> <p>The Schubert Fantasia will be performed by Margot Garrett and Sunglee Victoria Choi.</p>

About the Ticket Supplier: Musica Sacra

Musica Sacra was founded by Richard Westenburg at Central Presbyterian Church in 1964; it was the first all-professional, paid admission choral series ever undertaken by a church. By the early seventies, the popularity of its concerts caused it to become independent and move to larger venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For many years, concerts were given at Lincoln Center, and it was there that Dr. Westenburg founded Musica Sacra's Basically Bach Festival, and led its main concerts from 1979-89. The Festival was reinstituted in March, 2006.

In addition, to its acknowledged affinity for Baroque music, Musica Sacra has performed in all styles, from the chant of Hildegard to commissioned works and first performances of leading contemporary composers, such as Diamond, Britten, Khatchaturian, Convery and Rorem. They have recorded on RCA, BMG and Deutsche Grammophon music ranging from Handel (the first complete all-digital Messiah, in 1981, and still available), to Schoenberg, Bruckner and Meredith Monk.