Monday 4 May 2015 at 7:30pm
Sherborne Abbey

Brahms: Tragic Overture & A German Requiem
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder

• Sherborne Festival Chorus with Chameleon Arts Orchestra
• Melanie Armitstead Soprano
• Craig Bissex Bass
• Frances Bourne Mezzo Soprano
• Conductor Paul Ellis

We’re delighted to be part of Sherborne Festival Chorus again for its annual concert in the Sherborne Abbey Festival.

This year’s concert by the Festival’s own highly acclaimed choir brings together two great composers of the late nineteenth century. A well-loved masterpiece of the choral repertoire, Brahms’ uplifting setting of the Requiem established him as a major composer. Written for ‘all humanity’ and filled with soaring melody, its progression from suffering to consolation makes it a work of drama, emotion and hope. ‘I have done nothing better than these songs’, Wagner said about his five Wesendonck Lieder, composed to poems by Mathilde Wesendonck. Mathilde was certainly his creative muse for a time and these love songs celebrate their intense collaboration; Wagner presented the songs to her as a birthday present.

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