| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-Jun-2010 Wiltshire Music Centre | Requiems and Rainbows - Wiltshire Times |
| Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem Op 45 (German Requiem), as performed by The City of Bath Bach Choir at the Wiltshire Music Centre last Saturday, is a sombre work. Hardly surprising as the word ‘requiem’ usually refers to the Catholic Mass celebrated for the dead. Yet it was easy to feel uplifted as well as deeply moved by the choir’s clarity of diction, the stirring delivery, of Brahms’ harmonic German text.
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| 19-Jun-2010 Wiltshire Music Centre | Concert of contrasts lifts the audience’s spirits - Brahms and Horovitz |
| What a wonderfully piquant contrast this concert gave us – the Brahms German Requiem followed by Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo. Yet in both, after passages of melancholy reflection, of turbulence and stress, at the end all is well and we can rest in peace.
The Requiem is a demanding sing. It is a work of differing colours and emotions, but it has a unity which binds the seven movements together in a way unique to Brahms. It also brings together soloists and choir in a musical framework which provides an opportunity for changing textures.
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