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Brahms - Vaughan Williams
Event by: Het Amsterdams Gemengd Koor
Location: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam - Amsterdam-Oost
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Spring concert of the AGK on Sunday afternoon, 11 May 2025, 2 pm, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam:
Johannes Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs and The Lark Ascending and Vuazend and VUA. Williams, together with the performers, ensure an unparalleled concert. Both composers each hit the soul directly in their own way.
It will be enjoying the beautiful Mystical Songs by Vaughan Williams. The first four songs are modest and subtle and the fifth is an eruption of triumphant joy: "Let all the world in Every Corner Sing!" The melodies are enchanting.
Finally, his most famous work: The Lark Ascending, the ever -increasing lark sings the unlikely beautiful song of light.
And then Brahms "German," human "Requiem. It does not seem to be in the usual Requiems in any way. There is no Latin liturgical text in it and it is not intended to guide the dead. Brahms wrote this beautiful, intimate, Bible text -based music to remove the fear of death from people. With this he supports the relatives of the deceased and illuminates their grief. And he makes our own way (in due course) a bit less threatening to the hereafter. Brahms ’Mass offers hope, comfort, warmth and tranquility. But then the last trumpets and sound an overwhelming apotheosis in …………
Johannes Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs and The Lark Ascending and Vuazend and VUA. Williams, together with the performers, ensure an unparalleled concert. Both composers each hit the soul directly in their own way.
It will be enjoying the beautiful Mystical Songs by Vaughan Williams. The first four songs are modest and subtle and the fifth is an eruption of triumphant joy: "Let all the world in Every Corner Sing!" The melodies are enchanting.
Finally, his most famous work: The Lark Ascending, the ever -increasing lark sings the unlikely beautiful song of light.
And then Brahms "German," human "Requiem. It does not seem to be in the usual Requiems in any way. There is no Latin liturgical text in it and it is not intended to guide the dead. Brahms wrote this beautiful, intimate, Bible text -based music to remove the fear of death from people. With this he supports the relatives of the deceased and illuminates their grief. And he makes our own way (in due course) a bit less threatening to the hereafter. Brahms ’Mass offers hope, comfort, warmth and tranquility. But then the last trumpets and sound an overwhelming apotheosis in …………
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