BRAHMS: Deutches Requiem (Ein), Op. 45

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Label
Coro
Release Date
September 1, 2007
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRAHMS, JOHNANNES
    • PERFORMER
      Ein Deutsches Requiem
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2007
    • UPC
      828021605024
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16050
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (Chorus)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    2. II. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras (Chorus)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    3. III. Herr, lehre doch mich (Bass, Chorus)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    4. IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (Chorus)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    5. V. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    6. VI. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt (Bass, Chorus)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    7. VII. Selig sind die Toten (Chorus)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers


Recorded ‘as live’ in October 2006 following its performance at The Sixteen’s opening concert as Associate Artists of Southbank Centre, Brahms’ German Requiem one of the great choral masterpieces of all time. Brahms himself made a piano transcription of the orchestral parts of his magnificent Requiem. The arrangement for two players allows a degree of intimacy, precision and contrapuntal clarity that cannot be achieved in the orchestral version; indeed, at times one is reminded of the Liebeslieder-Walzer op. 52. In 1871 this version was given its English première conducted by Brahms’s friend Julius Stockhausen.  It is appropriate therefore that the piano used on this recording is a Bösendorfer of 1872 thus allowing us to experience the sort of sound Brahms himself would have heard.