City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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CBSO Chorus
(Chorus Master: Simon Halsey)
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Andris Nelsons
conductor
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Lucy Crowe
soprano
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Mihoko Fujimura
mezzo-soprano
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Toby Spence
tenor
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Georg Zeppenfeld
bass
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
“Nänie,” Op. 82
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
With two settings of poetry by Schiller that have played a prominent role in music history—“Nänie” by Johannes Brahms and the epochal Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven, “artiste étoile” Andris Nelsons poses the question of all questions: What do we believe in? In beauty and art, as Brahms urges in his memorial lament for the painter Anselm Feuerbach? Or do we believe in the future, in the brotherhood of man? In the “loving father above the starry canopy” that Beethoven captured in jubilant sounds in the “Ode to Joy”? Whether music actually has the answer may remain an open question, yet it is undoubtedly capable of conjuring persuasive visions that, outside the concert hall, we would almost be sure to treat with skepticism. Both works moreover show that questions of faith have hardly died out, though they shifted long ago from the church to the arts, from liturgy to literature.
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