CANCELLED - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Alexis Hauser, conductor
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, chorus master
Mary Jane Egan, Soprano;
Nathaniel Watson, Baritone
with the McGill Symphony Orchestra, Schulich Singers, McGill Concert Choir, and McGill University Chorus
JOHANNES BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
To end the orchestral season, the McGill Symphony Orchestra will be joined by the Schulich Singers, the McGill Concert Choir and the McGill University chorus to perform none other than Johannes Brahms’s deeply moving German Requiem. Written in the years following the tragic passing of his mentor Robert Schumann and the death of his mother, the Requiem is set to German text, departing from the Latin Catholic tradition, and is meant as an offering of hope and consolation for the living rather than as a mass for the dead. Complex, powerful and very personal to the composer, this seven-movement masterpiece will be brought to life in the stunning Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste under the direction of conductor Alexis Hauser and chorus master Jean-Sébastien Vallée.