After the brilliant performance of Cherubini's Requiem in May 2023, Thomas Hengelbrock and his ensembles return to the Philharmonie with Johannes Brahms' German Requiem.
Johannes Brahms achieved his breakthrough as a composer with this famous work at the age of 35. After Clara Schumann had studied the score, she wrote him what people still feel about this music today: "...that I am completely filled with your Requiem, it is a very powerful piece, touches the whole person in a way that few others can. The profound seriousness, combined with all the magic of poetry, has a wonderful, shattering and soothing effect. I ... feel the whole rich treasure of this work to the core, and the enthusiasm that speaks from every piece touches me deeply ... Oh, if I could hear it, what I would give for it!"
