Brahms Requiem

A joint performance of this great work featuring the combined choirs of The Boundstone Chorus and Worthing Choral Society with the Sinfonia of Arun.

Brahms began composing his Requiem early in 1865, only a month or so after the death of his mother.

The profound sense of loss and overwhelming grief of that time is unmistakably threaded throughout the music, but there’s also a wondrous feeling of gratitude. Where most requiems focus on the dead, Brahms’ begins with the living. The first words sung are “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted”.

A transcendent choral work, with gloriously tender parts for baritone and soprano, it is a work that speaks to the best of us.