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Artist: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Kent Nagano
Title: Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: BIS
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:32:44
Total Size: 419 MB
Tracklist:
1. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Bremen Version): I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (9:57)
2. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Bremen Version): II. Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras (14:04)
3. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Bremen Version): III. Herr, lehre doch mich (9:33)
4. Bach: Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante (Version for Violin and Organ) (6:00)
5. Tartini: Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, D 120: II. Andante (Version for Violin and Organ) (2:20)
6. Schumann: Abendlied, Op. 85, No. 12 (Version for violin and organ) (2:55)
7. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Bremen Version): IV. Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen (4:57)
8. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Bremen Version): VI. Denn wir haben hie (11:16)
9. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Bremen Version): VII. Selig sind die Toten (10:50)
10. Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: 39. Erbarme dich (7:37)
11. Handel: Der Messias: 16. Kommt her und seht das Lamm (2:57)
12. Handel: Der Messias: 33. Ich weiß, dass mein Erlöser lebet (6:19)
13. Handel: Der Messias: 32. Halleluja (4:06)
Recorded in August 2022 at concerts given in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie by the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg under Kent Nagano, this version of Johannes Brahms’s celebrated choral masterpiece will come as a surprise to many. The German Requiem is heard not in its usual seven movement version, but rather as it was first performed in Bremen Cathedral on 10th April 1868 (Good Friday) under Brahms’s direction, without the fifth movement for soprano and choir that was completed later that year. On the other hand, there are numerous interludes, instrumental and vocal, secular and sacred, by Bach, Tartini, Schumann and Handel – including pieces that were then regarded as essential parts of a Good Friday concert. Such a programme might seem unusual today, but these musical additions shed new light on Brahms’s work, which in this version manifests itself as what Umberto Eco might have described as an ‘open work’. Presenting the work in the form heard at the Bremen premiere is more than just a reconstruction: it enriches our understanding of this unique music. |
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