A HUMAN REQUIEM: Brahms and Schubert

Musica Viva ends its 2024 – 2025 season with Johannes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, which is one of the most imposing and profoundly moving musical statements in history. A work with personal significance to our Artistic Director, Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, Brahms’ Requiem is the most humanistic and universal of all the works of its type. As a companion to the Requiem, Musica Viva NY presents the opening movement of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, which was a formative early influence in Alejandro’s life-journey.

Schubert, Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”, Allegro Moderato

Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem

Musica Viva NY choir and orchestra

Anna Aistova, soprano

Paul Whelan, bass

Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, Artistic Director and conductor