Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

The discography of A German Requiem is strong, and no doubt many collectors long ago stopped looking to replace Karajan, Klemperer, and other old favorites. I’d advance this new release as something... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Release Date: 6th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: HMM902635
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 70 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Choral

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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

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Matthias Goerne (soloist), Christiane Karg (soloist)
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding

I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (Choir)

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II. Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras (Choir)

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III. Herr, lehre doch mich, daß ein Ende mit mir haben muß (Baritone and Choir)

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IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth (Choir)

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V. Ihr habt nur Traurigkeit (Soprano and Choir)

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VI. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt (Baritone and Choir)

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VII. Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herren sterben (Choir)

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Brahms’s Requiem, completed in 1868, draws on the legacy of his forerunners, Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach. In setting texts from the German Bible, it deliberately departs from the models of the Catholic liturgy and imposes a sorrowing yet consolatory meditation on death and the Last Judgment, in the manner of a poignant and grandiose cradle song for the dead.

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January/February 2020

The discography of A German Requiem is strong, and no doubt many collectors long ago stopped looking to replace Karajan, Klemperer, and other old favorites. I’d advance this new release as something exceptional, however. It rises to a very moving level of expressive power. The recorded sound is full and lifelike, and the balance between chorus, soloists, and orchestra is satisfying, although Goerne and Karg are miked very closely in a roomy ambience.

October 2019

Unanimity of attack and suavity of tone are two obvious and immediate benefits of such a period-inclined approach…Harding’s direction is unhurried, true to both the letter and the spirit of Brahms’s score…He enjoys the inestimable advantage of Matthias Goerne as a magnificently careworn and world-weary philosopher.

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