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The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert On WRTI: Acclaimed 2011 Performance of Brahms' German Requiem

It was an unforgettable performance! Re-live it on Sunday, March 31st, 2 to 4 pm as then Music Director-Designate Yannick Nezet-Seguin took the podium in March, 2011 to conduct The Philadelphia Orchestra, Westminster Symphonic Choir, and soloists Dorothea Roeschmann and Matthias Goerne in a critically acclaimed performance of Johannes Brahms's humanistic and glorious Ein Deutsches Requiem, A German Requiem - a symphonic as well as a choral masterpiece.

The program also features one of the pillars of the classical repertory: Mozart's Symphony Number 40. Gregg Whiteside is your host.

Intermission features:

Yannick talks about his deep personal connection to Brahms's choral masterpiece.

http://youtu.be/zcpSrA5-KZ0

Jim Cotter speaks with the Westminster Choir's Choral Director Joe Miller about the Princeton organization's long history performing with the world's greatest orchestras and conductors.

More information, including Program Notes, on The Philadelphia Orchestra website

Program:

Mozart: Symphony No. 40

INTERMISSION

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

Gregg was the host of WRTI's morning drive show from 2012 until his retirement from WRTI in January, 2021. He began producing and hosting The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert broadcasts in 2013, joining the Orchestra in Hong Kong for the first-ever live international radio broadcasts from that island in 2016, and in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for two historic broadcasts in 2018. You can still hear Gregg as host of the Orchestra broadcasts every Sunday and Monday on WRTI.