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 ...
The San Juan Symphony, regional choirs and soloists have joined forces to present A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms in Durango and Farmington. Offering this beautiful and enormously comforting ...
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 ...
Performing “Ein Deutsches Requiem” (“A German Requiem”) has been a goal of most large choirs ever since the work’s composer, Johannes Brahms, led the premiere performance in 1868. Now, the Vancouver ...
Brahms wasn't having a midlife crisis when he composed his masterwork, EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (A GERMAN REQUIEM), his meditation on death. In fact, he was only 33 when he started writing it in ...
Ein Deutsches Requiem (German Requiem) by Johannes Brahms has been performed so regularly that it’s easy to forget that it’s awfully hard. I’ve done this piece so I’m not unsympathetic to the ...
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 ...
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 Elmhurst Choral Union, along with the Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra, will present “Brahms: A German Requiem” on Sunday, April 21, in Hammerschmidt Chapel. It will feature soloists Susan Nelson, ...
“Blest are they who mourn, for they shall have comfort”. These words, forming the opening phrases of the Brahms’ Requiem, are taken from Matthew 5:4 and are part of the well-known and much-loved ...