Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem / Schutz - Choral Works
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Label: SDG
Cat No: SDG706
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 27th February 2012
Contents
Works
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45Geistliche Chormusik (Sacred Choral Music) 1648, op.11 SWV369-397
Artists
Katharine FugeMatthew Brook
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Conductor
John Eliot GardinerWorks
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45Geistliche Chormusik (Sacred Choral Music) 1648, op.11 SWV369-397
Artists
Katharine FugeMatthew Brook
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Conductor
John Eliot GardinerAbout
SDG is pleased to present the last recording issued from the 2008 'Brahms: Roots and Memories' tour, in which John Eliot Gardiner and his ensembles explored the music of Johannes Brahms.
Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem is presented along pieces by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) which might have inspired its composition, giving the listener a new insight into the composer’s mind and music making.
Deeply moving, profound, and powerful, the Requiem is central to our understanding of Brahms’ compositional personality and inner spiritual life. Behind its dramatic gestures and 19th century grandeur, it reveals Brahms’ obsessions with folk-songs and the music of the past. The libretto, assembled by Brahms himself based on the Lutheran Bible, makes it a definitive personal statement of his position in matters of religion.
The booklet includes a note by composer Hugh Wood, explaining how the pieces relate to each other and giving a moving account of Brahms as a composer and as a man.
Recorded live at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 2008.
"Does the world need another recording of Brahms's German Requiem? ...John Eliot Gardiner convinces us that there is room for one more, even of a performance he and his garlanded choir gave four years ago at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. The choral ensemble is superb; intonation perfect. Gardiner's instrumentalists' meticulous attention to authentic performance style adds a further dimension to a glorious reading of this beautiful piece. Highly recommended." - The Observer
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