Brahms – A German Requiem
- Date
- Saturday 28 March 2026, 7pm
- Venue
- St John the Evangelist, Sylvan Road, Upper Norwood
- Conductor
- Christopher Braime
- Accompanist
- Jack Stone
- Soloists
- Emma Tring (soprano), Harrison Gration (baritone)
- With
- South London Sinfonia, led by Brooke Day
- Tickets
- £15, under 18s free
Our spring concert was a joint project with the South London Sinfonia, which shares both our initials and our conductor, Christopher Braime: a full performance of Brahms’ German Requiem with orchestra and choir, sung in the original German. Rather than the traditional words of the requiem mass, Brahms chose biblical texts that comfort the living, opening with ‘Blessed are they that mourn’.
Before the interval, each group performed a piece by a local composer. We sang Geoffrey Lawrence’s Salt Water Songs, written for the choir’s Silver Jubilee in 2007, and the Sinfonia played the Ballade in A minor by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who lived in Croydon for most of his life.
Repertoire
- Geoffrey Lawrence Salt Water Songs
- Johannes Brahms A German Requiem