John Alexander began his 44th and penultimate season as artistic director of the Pacific Chorale with an ennobling account of Brahms’ “German Requiem.” But before leading the 140-voice ensemble and ...
Given music’s ability to comfort in difficult times, many composers have penned musical memorials. Some have been settings of traditional Latin texts of the Requiem Mass for liturgical use, from ...
Johannes Brahms is a funny one in the history of classical music. When you first hear his work it seems older than it is, like he should be further to the left on the following timeline, by birth date ...
A powerful moment of musical history recreated: Brahms’ German Requiem, played in the same place in which it premiered exactly 150 years earlier. Maddy Shaw Roberts reports from Bremen. There’s ...
The idea of composing a requiem in the German language based on texts from the Lutheran Bible and the Apocrypha began to take shape in Brahms' mind in 1857, a year after the death of his friend and ...
The University of Wyoming choirs will present Johannes Brahms’ “A German Requiem” Saturday, May 7. The concert is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. UW ...
With the coronavirus pandemic raging and no public performances in the forseeable future, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is streaming its acclaimed performance of Brahms' Requiem – free. April ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. We easily recognise Brahms the symphonist and chamber musician. But while the German Requiem has long ...
NEW YORK — The New York concert season drawing to a close was more or less bookended by performances of Brahms’ “A German Requiem,” intended to set the work in broader contexts. In October, Lincoln ...