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Arvo Pärt – Fratres - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin BrittenAbout Being Human
Robert Shaw: “If you believe that creativity is still going on, and there is purpose in all of human life, then the arts express that which is beautiful and intelligent and noble about being human.”
Brahms’s “A German Requiem” is the centerpiece this evening. Robert Shaw died less than three weeks before he was to record his English version, over which he had labored long and hard at the behest of those who perform itCraig Jessop, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the Utah Symphony. To quote from the liner notes: As the late Robert Shaw once wrote, “...when Brahms finally arrives at ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,’ it is as though a circle of comfort and confidence were completed. ‘They who mourn’ and the ‘blessed dead’ are separated only by the ‘twinkling of an eye’and in a moment are as one in victory.”
We end on a meditative note as we bring you Arvo Pärt’s “Fratres,” with violinist Gil Shaham, percussionist Roger Carlsson, and Neeme Järvi conducting the Gothenburg Symphony.
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