Brahms: A German Requiem (1871 London version)

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
September 13, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRAHMS, JOHANNES
    • PERFORMER
      Lewis, Bella Voce, Slettedahl, Terry, Russell, Areyzaga
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 13, 2019
    • UPC
      747313395279
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573952
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Blest are they who are sorrowful

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Bella Voce

      Performer: Madeline Slettedahl, Craig Terry

      Conductor: Andrew Lewis

    2. 2 II. For mortal flesh is as the grass

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Bella Voce

      Performer: Madeline Slettedahl, Craig Terry

      Conductor: Andrew Lewis

    3. III. Lord, teach me to know the measure of my days on earth

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Bella Voce

      Performer: Hugh Russell, Madeline Slettedahl, Craig Terry

      Conductor: Andrew Lewis

    4. IV. How lovely are Thy dwellings

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Bella Voce

      Performer: Madeline Slettedahl, Craig Terry

      Conductor: Andrew Lewis

    5. V. You now are sorrowful

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Bella Voce

      Performer: Michelle Areyzaga, Madeline Slettedahl, Craig Terry

      Conductor: Andrew Lewis

    6. VI. For we have on earth no abiding place

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Bella Voce

      Performer: Hugh Russell, Madeline Slettedahl, Craig Terry

      Conductor: Andrew Lewis

    7. VII. Blessed are the dead

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Bella Voce

      Performer: Madeline Slettedahl, Craig Terry

      Conductor: Andrew Lewis


Brahms' fascination with music of the 16th to the 18th centuries was nurtured during his appointment in Vienna as conductor of the Singakademie. His own choral compositions had gradually moved from an almost pastiche Renaissance style towards a fully mature, Romantic approach, culminating in his large-scale choral masterpiece Ein deutsches Requiem. This performance is sung in a new English translation prepared by Lara Hoggard that fits the original German declamation and with the piano four-hands accompaniment written by Brahms himself.