Brahms' Requiem
Heinz Hall
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
412-392-4900
February 3, 2012 - February 5, 2012
Ticket Prices: Tickets start at $20
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Artists
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Chen Reiss, soprano
Program
| Antonín Dvorák: | Biblical Songs |  |
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| Johannes Brahms: | A German Requiem | |
About This Performance
Hailed as a vital force of music with his powerful and impassioned voice, American baritone star Thomas Hampson makes a long overdue return to the PSO. The highly sought-after Grammy Award-winning soloist performs Dvořák’s beautiful Biblical Songs, a song cycle based on various psalms. Hampson then joins the all-star cast of angelic soprano Chen Reiss, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Manfred Honeck and the PSO in Brahms’ A German Requiem. This entrancing and magnanimous work, sung in German for dramatic effect, takes your breath away with its tender and quiet moments of sweetness and its powerful peaks of emotional intensity.
This concert is part of Music for the Spirit
Explore & Engage
Concert Prelude with PSO Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh and guest Betsy Burleigh, Music Director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh
Free and open to all ticket holders; on stage, one hour prior to the concert
In the lobby: The Junior Mendelssohn Choir performs in the Grand Lobby (Friday and Saturday)
One hour prior to the concert
Browse through displays about composers Brahms, Dvořák, German Romanticism and the Requiem tradition.
PSO Book Club (Sunday only)
The World in Six Songs: How The Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin
Moderated by WQED-FM’s Jim Cunningham, with Penny A. Brill, viola
1:30 pm – Dorothy Porter Simmons Regency Rooms (Lower Level, Heinz Hall)
Free and open to all ticket holders to the afternoon’s performance; reservations required.
Call 412.392.4876 or email explore@pittsburghsymphony.org by Thursday, February 2 to register.
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This concert is part of these Subscription Series:
- Friday Bravura
- Friday Ovation
- Friday Premiere
- Saturday Bravura
- Saturday Ovation
- Sunday Bravura
- Sunday Ovation
- Sunday Premiere
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