Category: Concerts
Programme:
The ever popular Requiem by Brahms is a large scale choral work completed in 1868.It is a setting of uplifting texts selected from the Lutheran Bible, emphasising comfort for the living, beginning with the chorus “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted” and later the familiar “How lovely are thy dwellings”
More correctly Symphony No. 9, From the New World is another much-loved work, dramatic and lyrical. It was composed whilst the Czech composer was living in America.
Tickets: £17.50, £15.00, £10.00, £7.50. Find out how to purchase tickets.
(Under 19s: 1 free ticket with 1 adult ticket purchased or
free standby opportunities on the day of the concert, subject to availability.)
‘An evening of many soul-stirring moments.’ Lichfield Mercury (3 December 2005) |