PPO, Rachelle Gerodias, Byeong-In Park, and Madz set for Brahms Requiem Philippine premiere

March 18, 2016, 8:00 PM

Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater)

Cultural Center of the Philippines

CCP Complex

Pasay, Metro Manila

Featuring:

Rachelle Gerodias, soprano

Byeong-In Park, baritone

Philippine Madrigal Singers et al

Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Olivier Ochanine, conductor

Programme:

Johannes Brahms

     Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

The Philippine premiere of Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 headlines the penultimate concert of music director/principal conductor Olivier Ochanine with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra on March 18, 2016, 8:00 PM at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater).

Real life couple soprano Rachelle Gerodias and baritone Byeong-In Park will be the evening’s soloists while the Philippine Madrigal Singers lead the group of choirs performing in this magnum opus of Brahms. As the title suggests, this Requiem features German text as opposed to the Latin of a traditional Requiem Mass. And instead of being a mass for the dead, this piece centers more on comforting and consoling the living.

This upcoming performance of a large choral work comes almost exactly five years after the PPO played Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem. Olivier Ochanine told me that it wasn’t by design that this is happening but I think that as his stint with the PPO is about to wrap up, things are going full circle albeit by coincidence.

The initially announced world debut performance of the winning piece of the PPO Composition Competition is now scheduled for the concert on April 22, 2016. The piece(s) to be performed alongside Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem is to be announced.

Ticket prices:

P1500 Orchestra Center

P1200 Orchestra Side

P800 Extreme Orchestra Side

P500 Balcony I Center

P400 Balcony I Side

P300 Balcony II

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