SDG 706 - BRAHMS EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM- AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2012...

Following on from the phenomenal worldwide success of the Brahms Symphonies series, (nominated in the orchestral category of the 2009 BBC Music Awards), SDG is happy 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 with 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.

Inside the same elegant packaging used for the Brahms Symphonies and Bach Cantatas CDs, the booklet includes a note by composer Hugh Wood, explaining how the pieces relate to each other and gives a moving account of Brahms as a composer and as a man.

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SDG 706 - Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Op. 45 (1 cd) contains:

Schütz - Selig sind die Toten SWV391
Schütz - Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen SWV29
Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem Op. 45

(Recorded live at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 2008)


Soloists:
Katharine Fuge | Matthew Brook

The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner

 Click here for a French Translation of the sleeve notes.

 Click here for a German Translation of the sleeve notes.

 Click here for the English sleeve notes.

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