La Chapelle de Québec

Please note that due to illness, Bernard Labadie has withdrawn from this performance. Conducting in his place will be Xian Zhang. The program remains unchanged. The Orchestra of St. Luke’s concludes its 2023–2024 series with a glorious evening of Brahms choral works. The program opens with the first-ever Carnegie Hall performance of Brahms’s Begräbnisgesang, a short and deeply personal early work, likely written in remembrance of Brahms’s close friend Robert Schumann. The magnificent requiem follows, treating audiences to a singular masterpiece of the choral repertoire that combines sacred music with a profoundly universal and humanistic spirit.