- Gustav Mahler: "Das irdische Leben" for soprano and orchestra
- Charles E. Ives: "The Unanswered Question" for orchestra
- Gustav Mahler: "The Heavenly Life" for soprano and orchestra
- Johannes Brahms: "Ein deutsches Requiem" for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra
Elena So, soprano Almas Svilpa, bass-baritone Choir and Orchestra of Witten/Herdecke University Conductor: UMD Ingo Ernst Reihl
"There is little to tell you here, but I must tell you that I am completely and utterly filled with your Requiem, it is a quite powerful piece, grips the whole person in a way like few others. The deep seriousness, united with all the magic of poetry, has a wonderful, shattering and soothing effect. As you know, I can never really put it into words, but I feel the entire rich treasure of this work to the core, and the enthusiasm that speaks from every piece moves me deeply, which is why I cannot refrain from expressing it. [...] Oh, if I could hear it, what I would give for it." (Clara Schumann to Johannes Brahms 1867)
"Since Bach's Mass in B minor and Beethoven's Missa solemnis, nothing has been written in this field that can stand next to Brahms' German Requiem." (The music critic Eduard Hanslick after the premiere in 1869)
Cost: EUR 15,- / free for pupils, students and refugees