Brahms: Song of Destiny

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Image courtesy of L'auditori

After a long creative process, Johannes Brahms managed to compose a choral and symphonic work that stands out for its profound solemnity, right from the opening bars. The "Song of Destiny” was inspired by the eponymous poem featured in Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion which contrasts the divine with the human, in awareness of human mortality. Brahms evokes profound feelings through a broad spectrum of orchestral colors and rhythmic contrasts. Although it is on a very different scale, it is a work that has been identified as having a similar spirit to his "Ein Deutsches Requiem” ("A German Requiem").

This piece is the gem of a program that will be performed at Barcelona’s L’Auditori.

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