麻豆社

Still waters run deep: Sakari Oramo and the 麻豆社 Symphony Chorus perform Brahms鈥檚 German Requiem, plus two emotionally-charged rediscoveries from postwar Finland.

鈥淏lessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted鈥�. Johannes Brahms was not a believer, and as he composed his German Requiem, he set out to console and comfort the living. The result is one of the most beautiful, most moving and 鈥� in its own way - most profoundly spiritual choral works of the 19th century. The 麻豆社 Symphony Chorus sings it today, and Sakari Oramo conducts.

But there鈥檚 more than one way to tell any story, and Oramo has chosen to introduce Brahms鈥檚 masterpiece with two songs of protest and loss from his native Finland. In Requiem for Our Time, the late Einojuhani Rautavaara mourns his mother with drums and trumpets, while Aulis Sallinen chips away at the Berlin Wall in music of quiet but implacable power. The accent is unfamiliar, but the emotion is universal.

Tickets on general sale from 29 September.