LNSO, CHOIR “LATVIJA” AND “EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM”

State Choir Latvija

Latvian National Syphony Orchestra

Jacquelyn Wagner, soprano

Marcus Brück, baritone

Conductor Andris POGA

Programme:

Johannes Brahms SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F MAJOR, OP.90

Johannes Brahms EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM

It had been a year since Wagner’s departure to a better world, yet Brahms and Wagner aficionados were still opposing camps, and the first performance of Brahms symphony could still lead to fighting with no holds barred. Still, the success was great and the passionate theme of the third movement became an object of popculture, used, emong others, by Sinatra, Santana and Gainsbourg. The German Requiem might feel like being from another world, measured, yet emotionally highly charged dedication to the path of human life from love to eternity.