Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45 / Johannes Brahms.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, composer.

Contributor:

Jansons, Mariss, 1943- conductor.

Groot Omroepkoor, performer.

Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, performer, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Standardized Title:

Deutsches Requiem

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Requiems.

Genre:

Requiems.

Filmed performances.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 minutes)

Other Title:

Mariss Jansons conducts Brahms' Requiem

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Berlin State : C Major Entertainment, 2012.

Language Note:

Sung in German.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

'Ich will euch trösten' (I will comfort you), sings the soprano in Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem. Indeed, this is music of comfort, not of lamentation. With this work, Mariss Jansons is continuing the Requiem ritual started in 2011 to allow listeners to contemplate the transience of life at the beginning of autumn. Rather than using the standard Latin mass text, however, Brahms selected his own text from the Bible. He completed the work after the death of his mother. Following the premiere, the music critic Hanslick wrote, 'Since Bach's Mass in B minor and Beethoven's Missa solemnis, nothing in this vein has been written which is comparable to Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem.' It was this work, which became immensely popular, that truly established Brahms as a composer.

Participant:

Genia Kühmeier, soprano ; Gerald Finley, bass ; Netherlands Radio Choir ; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ; Mariss Jansons, conductor.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 26, 2016).

Recorded in performance from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.

OCLC:

959235974