BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 17 Brahms’ A German Requiem (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov are joined by Elena Tsallagova and Shenyang for Brahms's A German Requiem and Jennifer Walshe is the soloist in her own piece.

Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

01. Walshe, Jennifer -  The Site of an Investigation
01a. Introduction to Walshe’s The Site of an Investigation
01b. BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 17, interval commentary - Chain Reaction (1/6)
Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on the first of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. Expect the unexpected in this refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!
02. Brahms - A German Requiem

Jennifer Walshe, voice
Elena Tsallagova, soprano
Shenyang, bass-baritone
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Be here now, they say – but in 2022, and a world in which threats come as fast as wonders, why would you even want to? The Site of an Investigation is Jennifer Walshe’s one-woman response. It’s a massive, multilayered symphonic deep-dive into social media, algorithm madness, streaming playlists and micropollutants – all in search of a very personal path into the open. Conductor Ilan Volkov never takes the obvious perspective and, after the interval, he conducts Brahms’s heartfelt A German Requiem: a service of consolation from a composer without conventional religious faith, but with a limitless depth of compassion. An answer, of sorts? Decide for yourself …

First broadcast:  28 July 2022
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