Edinburgh International Festival 8th-31st August 2008

About the Performance

Sir John Eliot Gardiner is a pioneer and a polymath. The range of his musical interests from Bach to Stravinsky, from oratorio to operetta are reflected in performances of exceptional musicality coupled with scrupulous scholarship. At the forefront of the development of original performance practice and early music, John Eliot Gardiner brings his breadth of experience to shine on his interpretations of two of the works most central to the canon of Western music: Schütz's Musikalische Exequien and Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem.

Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem is part of Hear Here!
 

Hear, Here!

2008: a year of listening   Live. Online.  On Air
Listening.  It sounds so simple.  Take your seat in the concert hall, sit back and listen.  Put on a CD, turn up the volume and soak up the sounds.  But, are we really listening?  Or, are we losing the ability to truly listen and turning music into a barely-noticed audio backdrop for other activities?
Throughout 2008, Hear Here! - the UK’s first classical music project devoted to listening, has been exploring the many different facets of listening to music; from the concert experience to how the ear works, how musicians listen, to the effect that memory and nostalgic association has on our capacity to listen.... and much, much more.

This August, Hear Here! reaches Edinburgh, linking up with the Festival for a performance of Brahms’ epic German Requiem by The Monteverdi Choir/Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner at Usher Hall on 19 August.  Listen to Sir John Eliot Gardiner in conversation with Anne-Marie Minhall on Classic FM’s The Guest List on Sunday 17 August plus read his thoughts on the work and find out if you’re really listening at www.hearhere.org.uk

Presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society and Classic FM, supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Hear Here! includes online activities at www.hearhere.org.uk, with contributions from leading scientists and musicians, on air programming at Classic FM and a range of live performances nationwide of key works from the classical repertoire.