Reuter sings Brahms

He is one of Denmark's greatest singers, but we don't have him to ourselves. Johan Reuter, bass-baritone, sings on the big stages abroad. In recent years, i.a. in the party as the husband Barak in Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten – poignantly sung in e.g. London, New York, Berlin, and fortunately also at the Opera in Copenhagen. Johan Reuter was for a number of years a part of the Kgl. Theater's regular opera ensemble and is still on stage there, most recently in Heise's opera Drot og Marsk, where he played the Martian Stig, who avenges the king's abuse of his wife, with a voice that fits the role completely. A voice that can reach the back rows of the big opera houses, but which also has the finesse that allows him to sing the smaller formats, the songs. Brahms songs, Four serious songs, to texts from the Bible, needs both the power and the fervor Johan Reuter is famous for.

The concert is in the hands of the Belarusian conductor Vitali Aleeksenok, who both conducts the music of our time with his own ensemble, is chief conductor at the opera in Düsseldorf - and with the Sønderjylland Symphony Orchestra has two heavyweights on the program: Brahms and Beethoven, his 5th symphony, The Symphony of Fate, with probably the most famous introduction in music history.

Program:

WA Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
J. Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Conducter

Vitaly Aleeksenok

Soloist:

Johan Reuter, bass-baritone