Beethoven plus Festival 2026 - DIALOGUE OF VOICES
Johannes Brahms - A German Requiem. Out of a strong individual human experience, but without remaining trapped in it, his music grew from purely musical circumstances to impressive greatness. Simple, more drawing than colouring and above all free of literary ties, Brahms' personality and art have a strong force in the objective, in the general. As an integral part of the concert literature, his German Requiem is considered one of the highlights of Brahms's creative art and one of the most important works in the concert repertoire. Condemned as academic, epigonal and formalistic, Brahms was regarded as a traditionalist by the "expressive" and "future" musicians of his time. He was considered backward because he did not smash things up, but sought to preserve and increase what already existed. He renewed these possessions through the great artistic ideas of the past in a sense that pointed far into the future, thereby lending his art lasting topicality.
