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Proms 2024
28 Jul 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 17: Brahms’s A German Requiem

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Prom 17: Brahms’s A German Requiem
19:30 Thu 28 Jul 2022 Royal Albert Hall
Brahms’s A German Requiem and Jennifer Walshe’s The Site of an Investigation – performed by the 91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and National Youth Choir of Great Britain, conducted by Ilan Volkov.
Brahms’s A German Requiem and Jennifer Walshe’s The Site of an Investigation – performed by the 91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and National Youth Choir of Great Britain, conducted by Ilan Volkov.

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Be here now, they say – but in 2022, and a world in which threats come as fast as wonders, why would you even want to? The Site of an Investigation is Jennifer Walshe’s one-woman response. It’s a massive, multilayered symphonic deep-dive into social media, algorithm madness, streaming playlists and micropollutants – all in search of a very personal path into the open. Conductor Ilan Volkov never takes the obvious perspective and, after the interval, he conducts Brahms’s heartfelt A German Requiem: a service of consolation from a composer without conventional religious faith, but with a limitless depth of compassion. An answer, of sorts? Decide for yourself …

Image: Jennifer Walshe © Blackie Bouffant

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