Brahms' Requiem Concert Programme

Brahms’ Requiem

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Music has this incredible power of connecting us to our emotions and allowing us to release what has been neglected, forgotten, and supressed.

Every human being experiences grief in their own way, but I believe they can find universal meaning through this moving work. Conceived as a piece to comfort the living rather than as a memorial for loved ones as traditional requiems are, the Brahms’ German Requiem is now essential repertoire for orchestra choruses.

Presented today in its chamber ensemble orchestration, you will hear the KSO Chorus tackle one of its most exciting challenges since performing Orff’s Carmina Burana in May 2019. I wish to thank all the KSO choristers who, after navigating many difficult years of disruption due to COVID-19, are here today to sing this moving work with our musicians.

I am also very grateful to our dedicated collaborative pianist Daniela O’Fee and well as our dynamic KSO Chorus Master Tomas Bijok for leading the chorus’ weekly rehearsals, and allow members of our community to do something very special: communicating through their love of music.

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A traditional Requiem Mass is a longestablished religious service of the Catholic Church sung in Latin, that honours the death of particular individuals. Many classical composers such as Haydn, Mozart and Berlioz use elements of this traditional Catholic structure in their Requiems, that include familiar sections such as the Requiem aeternam, Dies Irae and Sanctus. As we will hear, Brahms’ German Requiem is not a “requiem” in this traditional manner. Brahms created his own highly personal version of a requiem, avoiding the traditional Latin and, instead, selecting passages from the German Lutheran Bible and Apocrypha. This gives his German Requiem a more clearly Protestant quality, not surprising from a Protestant North German composer from Hamburg.

February 2, 1865: “If you want to see our mother once again, come immediately.” That’s how the telegram read that Johannes Brahms received from his brother Fritz. Brahms, who was in Vienna, made all the speed he could, but it is a long way from Vienna to Hamburg, and Christiane Brahms, who had had a stroke, was already dead when Johannes arrived. By all accounts she had had a difficult life.

Brahms, who loved her deeply, was grief stricken.

The death of his mother is often cited as the event that brought the German Requiem into being. However, Brahms already had the idea for a “cantata of grief” long before his mother’s passing.

The death of his friend and mentor, Robert Schumann in 1856, when Brahms was only 23, was most likely the

origin of the idea: his determination that, at some point he should honour the memory of the musician who had recognized his potential and nurtured his emerging talent. During the decade that followed Schumann’s death, Brahms experienced other sources of grief, some personal—his parents’ divorce, his own dreams of an ideal relationship—some professional—his ambition to become a conductor, his long struggles with his First Symphony (eventually premiered only in 1876).

As early as 1861 Brahms had made a list of biblical selections from the Old Testament, New Testament and the Apocrypha, for an “elegiac cantata” “solely in the German language.”

Although these choices are all from the Bible, the work does not reflect any particular ecclesiastical liturgical tradition, and they reveal the different approach he has taken. Unlike the Catholic Mass for the Dead, his chosen texts are not supplications imploring God to intercede for the dead, nor are they prayers for the souls of the deceased; rather, they are directed at those who remain, who are in mourning and are seeking hope. The texts accept humanity’s transience but also confirm its eventual fulfillment.

His choices sometimes reflect human doubt and uncertainty, but that adds an element of authenticity to the impact of both words and music in their expression of comfort. This provision of consolation for the bereaved is the work’s chief aim and makes the German Requiem an interdenominational work that affirms the power of remembrance and of contemplation. Brahms himself

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admits the power of his music and of the process of its composition: “I have now found consolation! I have overcome what I thought I would never be able to overcome…. I have now cast off my grief, it has been taken from me; I have finished my music of grief as a blessing of the suffering.”

Clara Schumann (Robert’s widow) wrote to Brahms after he had sent her the score of the last two parts of the work in 1867: “I am altogether imbued with your Requiem, it is a mighty piece of music, seizes the entire person as little else can. The deep gravity, united with all the magic of the poetry has

a wonderful, shocking and calming effect… I feel the whole, rich treasure of this work in my innermost being and the enthusiasm that speaks from every piece moves me deeply. . . “ Brahms conceived his German Requiem for a choir of two hundred singers and a massive orchestra intended to match them. The Kamloops Symphony has chosen to perform the chamber ensemble version arranged

by Joachim Linckelmann, which is for a string quintet, a woodwind quintet and timpani.

A German Requiem Movements 1 through 7 1. The words from the Gospel of Matthew from the Sermon on the Mount, “Blessed are they that mourn…” and then from Psalm 126,” They that sow in tears…” call for a subdued but comforting opening. This movement, which contains unaccompanied choral sections, shows Brahms’s familiarity with elements of Renaissance church music.

2. With its texts from the Epistle of Peter on human frailty and from James and Isaiah on patience and fulfillment, the opening of the second movement has often been described as a march in triple time in which the timpani are noticeable and ominous. After the mood brightens, the march returns and leads to a triumphant climax “as the ransomed of the Lord shall return”

that combines the full power of the orchestral forces with the chorus who sing of “Freude” (Joy) in a manner reminiscent of Beethoven, before the movement draws to a quiet close.

3. Movement three begins with a recitative by the baritone soloist who pleads urgently for knowledge of his mortality in words from Psalm 39. It develops as a dialogue between soloist and chorus, who respond by declaring, “My hope is in Thee,” an uplifting assertion that Brahms casts in the form of a powerful fugue.

4. The choral fourth movement, “How lovely are thy dwellings fair” from Psalm 84 is perhaps the most well-known movement from the Requiem, and the only one to have

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a concert life on its own. It is often considered the emotional centre of the work, the sweet tenderness of its lilting melody expressing an optimism that replaces the more serious mood of the opening parts.

Brahms uses the repetitive features of a fugal structure again towards the movement’s end as a way of providing emphasis on the desire for God’s presence.

5. Along with the orchestra and chorus, the fifth movement features a soprano soloist and words taken from John’s Gospel, Isaiah, and Ecclesiasticus. In spite of the opening declaration, “And ye now therefore have sorrow,” the focus in the movement is on the certainty of comfort, with the chorus providing words of reassurance. The music’s key is bright, the melody is steady, and when the soloist sings Isaiah’s words of a mother’s comfort it is hard not imagine how close Brahms’ music must have come to reflecting his own need for consolation.

6. Movement six opens with the chorus quietly reaffirming the uncertain nature of human future in words from Hebrews, “For here we have no abiding city.” Then the baritone soloist joins the chorus to announce the prophecy of the

Resurrection as described by the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians, “Behold, I show you a mystery,” words familiar to many from Handel’s powerful setting for bass solo in Part 3 of Messiah.

Here Brahms creates an equally triumphant effect with the chorus, who then embark on an equally powerful double fugue praising God in words from Revelation, “Thou art worthy, O Lord,” that brings movement six to a firm and unshakeable conclusion.

7. The concluding movement of the Requiem is clearly designed as an artistic bookend, emotionally, spiritually, and musically, as Brahms uses the music of the opening chorus of movement one, “Blessed are they that mourn,” here at the end for the complementary words from Revelation, “Blessed are the dead.” The mood of this conclusion is one of restrained exultation—not the dark tones of the second movement, nor the urgent pleading of the third movement or serenity the fourth movement, but a quiet tranquility closer to the consolation of the fifth movement and the confidence of the sixth movement.

T E X T & T R A N S L AT I O N

1. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen, denn sie sollen getröstet werden.

Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.

Die mit Tränen säen, werden mit Freuden ernten.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Sie gehen hin und weinen und tragen edlen Samen, und kommen mit Freuden und bringen ihre Garben.

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

2. Denn alles Fleisch ist wie Gras, und alle Herrlichkeit des Menschen wie des Grases Blumen.

Das Gras ist verdorret und die Blume abgefallen.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.

The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

So seid nun geduldig, lieben Brüder, bis auf die Zukunft des Herrn.

Siehe, ein Ackermann wartet auf die köstliche Frucht der Erde und is geduldig darüber, bis er empfahe den Morgenregen und Abendregen.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.

Behold, the husbandmen waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Aber des Herrn Wort bleibet in Ewigkeit.

But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.

Die Erlöseten des Herrn werden wieder kommen, und gen Zion kommen mit Jauchzen; ewige Freude wird über ihrem Haupte sein; Freude und Wonne werden sie ergreifen und Schmerz und Seufzen wird weg müssen.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

3. Herr, lehre doch mich, daß ein Ende mit mir haben muß, und mein Leben ein Ziel hat, und ich davon muß.

Siehe, meine Tage sind einer Hand breit vor dir, und mein Leben ist wie nichts vor dir.

Ach, wie gar nichts sind alle Menschen, die doch so sicher leben.

Sie gehen daher wie ein Schemen, und machen ihnen viel vergebliche Unruhe;

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain:

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sie sammeln und wissen nicht wer es kriegen vird.

Nun Herr, wess soll ich mich trösten?

Ich hoffe auf dich.

he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

Der Gerechten Seelen sind in Gottes Hand und keine Qual rühret sie an.

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.

4. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth!

Meine seele verlanget und sehnet sich nach den Vorhöfen des Herrn; mein Leib und Seele freuen sich in dem lebendigen Gott.

Wohl denen, die in deinem Hause wohnen, die loben dich immerdar.

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee.

5. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit; aber ich will euch wieder sehen und euer Herz soll sich freuen und eure Freude soll neimand von euch nehmen.

Ich will euch trösten, wie Einen seine Mutter tröstet.

Sehet mich an: Ich habe eine kleine Zeit Mühe und Arbeit gehabt und habe großen Trost funden.

And ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.

Ye see how for a little while I labor and toil, yet have I found much rest.

6. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt, sondern die zukünftige suchen wir.

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Siehe, ich sage euch ein Geheimnis: Wir werden nicht alle entschlafen, wir werden aber alle verwandelt werden; und dasselbige plötzlich, in einem Augenblick, zu der Zeit der letzten Posaune.

Denn es wird die Posaune schallen, und die Toten werden auferstehen unverweslich, und wir werden verwandelt werden.

Dann wird erfüllet werden das Wort, das geschrieben steht:

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,

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Der Tod is verschlungen in den Sieg.

Tod, wo ist dein Stachel?

Hölle, wo ist dein Sieg?

Death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is they sting?

O grave, where is they victory?

Herr, du bist Würdig zu nehmen Preis und Ehre und Kraft, denn du hast alle Dinge geschaffen, und durch deinen Willen haben, sie das Wesen und sind geschaffen.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

7. Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herrn sterben, von nun an.

Ja, der Geist spricht, daß sie ruhen von ihrer Arbeit; denn ihre Werke folgen ihnen nach.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

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D’Arcy & Mariko Lintott

Terry & Susanne Rogers

Margaret Brown

James MacDonald

Kathy Sinclair

Wendy Charlebois

Ruth Majak

Margaret Chrumka

Richard Mann

Carol & Wolfgang Sinnemann

Rochelle Collins

Sylvia Rose Markowsky

Jean Dahl

Kaitlin Methot

Roxanne Dauncey

Ellen & John McCurrach

Joanne Dennstedt

Marilyn McLean

Philip Durell

Gudrun Meyer

Jean Ethridge

Katy Michell

Brett & Norma Fairbain

Dianne Miller

Ruth & Michael Fane

Brian Mills

Bill Fonseca

Christy Morris

Judith Fowles

Kathleen Nadler

Donna Geefs

W. Russell Nakonesby

Joyce & Rusty Gibbons

Charo Neville

Lucille Gnanasihamany

Angi & Russ Noakes

Sheila Gorkoff

Gillian Oliver

Peter & Judy Gray

Ron & Louise Oyler

Cathy Hall-Patch

Marian Owens

Susan Hammond

Margaret Patten

Donald & Sandra Staff Ed Takahashi Peter ter Weeme David Todd Lynne Totten Judith Treherne Susan Tyrrell Robert Ulevog Lynne Van Hamme Evelyn Vipond-Schmidt Sharon Warren Dave & Maryanne Whiting Eric & Mary Wiebe Lois & David Williams Jayne Wilson Michael Wisla

The above represents the individuals and corporations who have donated to the Kamloops Symphony Society in the last twelve months. For any errors or omissions, please do let us know at 250.372.5000 or info@kamloopssymphony.com.

2023 Spring Raffle Entertaining Excursions

Buy a raffle ticket and help support our Symphony!

Four exciting prizes available to win.

Tickets: 1 for $10 | 5 for $30 | 10 for $50 | 20 for $80

On sale from: Monday, March 1 to Wednesday, May 31, 2023 • 12:00pm Draw Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 • 2:00pm Prizes:

• A WestJet flight for two to anywhere they fly

• A getaway to Calgary with a hotel stay, tickets to the Calgary Philharmonic, and passes to the National Music Centre

• Two Prestige subscription packages to the KSO • 2x $250 Fisherman’s Market Gift Certificates

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