Oxford Philomusica - Requiem Aeternam, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

What/Why:

Britten
Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
Brahms
Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Maria Savastano soprano
Roderick Williams baritone
London Symphony Chorus

Marios Papadopoulos conductor

Oxford Philomusica launches its Britten Series to celebrate this British composer’s centenary with an Armistice Day performance of his compact, intensely dramatic, war-time Sinfonia – which visits, unflinchingly, grief and fear before finding resigned repose. Brahms’ equally humanistic approach to the death conveys the same message – ‘they shall be comforted’.

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