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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Philips Catalog: Music Release date: 1991-05-10 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0028943214025 Upc: 028943214025  Tip: compare prices with similar classical music CDs |
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| Album tracks: (7) |
 \"Selig sind die da Lied tragen\", Chorus \"Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras\", Chorus \"Herr, lehre doch mich\", Baritone & Chorus / \"Der gerechten Seelen sind in Gottes Hand\", Fugue | \"Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen\", Chorus \"Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit\", Soprano & Chorus \"Denn wir haben hier keine bleibende statt\", Chorus / \"Herr, du bist wurdig\", Fugue | \"Selig sind die Toten\", Concluding Chorus |
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| Musical settings of the Requiem understandably encompass a vast expressive gamut, from Mozart's fear and trembling to the seraphic gentleness of Fauré. But the focus in Brahms's German Requiem--his first large-scale work--is not so much on the departed as on those left behind and the work of memory. In lieu of the traditional Latin liturgy, Brahms uses texts culled from the Lutheran Bible that range from despair at our mortal condition to the solace offered by faith. John Elliott Gardiner and his forces here attempt to replicate the orchestral sound and style of Brahms's own time, using period bowing practices for the strings and mellow Viennese horns, to cite a few examples. The result is a magnificent and deeply moving performance that features excellent integration of the orchestra and chorus. Gardiner molds a huge crescendo of imposing terror in the funereal march of the second movement but always keeps the textures clear and balanced. He manages to convey both the symphonic scope of this work and its polyphonic imagination--Brahms looked back to Baroque as well as Renaissance sources and in the process created a rich and potent new style. Charlotte Margiono's rosy soprano is angelic but at the same time tinged with a sense of longing for what has been lost--which makes the musical consolation offered by the end of the seventh movement all the more profound. Baritone Rodney Gilfry brings warmth and passionate phrasing to his solos. And presiding over everything is Gardiner's masterful sense of the work's larger structure: the path traced by Brahms is revealed with great dignity but is free of sentimentality. This recording belongs in any basic collection. --Thomas May |
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Written on October 9, 2003 Summary: Top-notch sound, great recording. This recording has great sound with a satisfying orchestral transparency, fluid movement that still retains a satisfying degree of weightiness, and wonderful solos. Still, for me it is somehow lacking in some of those "invisible" qualities that might had made this a true personal favorite. Passion, emotion, egotism...I can't put my finger on what's missing for me. There is also a greatly-exaggerated syncopation in the second movement, which becomes a virtual grace-note to the third beat. I've never seen the score and don't know if it may be an accurate interpretation, but I'm thankful that other recordings avoid this. However, this still remains one of the best recordings out there, especially for you "period instrument" nuts like me.  Written on September 14, 2003 Summary: Great Great recording. I would also like to recommend Klemperer's German Requiem which is very inspiring. And if you like opera, Klemperer's Fidelio which is almost like a religious experience. Written on September 6, 2003 Summary: Beautiful What a lovely recording. Is it the absolute, no questions asked, number one, greatest recording of the work ever made? Who knows? Besides, I haven't heard them all. I find it uproariously funny that the person who identifies himself as "Music Fan", after carping mindlessly about this performance states "What IS good IMO? A relatively unheralded recording - Van Karajan's recording with BPO, Schwartzkopf, et al." Excuse me, boys and girls, but there is no recording of Ein Deutsches Requiem with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra that features Elizabeth Schwartzkopf as soloist. He also expresses a preference for a Morman Tabernacle Choir performance of the piece based on sound clips he previewed. Whatever. So much for faux-knowledgeable blow hards. Rest assured. If you buy this recording you won't be sorry. Cheers. Written on August 24, 2003 Summary: Wonderful, fresh Brahms Requiem Compared to the person who wrote the scathing review that lurks on these pages somewhere, I find that I have some rather positive things to say about this recording of Brahms's choral masterpiece. Firstly, unlike most recordings you hear of the piece, this recording is free of the slow, mannered Wagnerian speeds that have dogged the piece for many years. This recording, which follows Brahms's original speeds, really makes the supple melodies soar and sing out to us, yet remain sublime and heartfelt at the same time. Secondly, this recording shows a sense of commitment in everyone involved. Apart from the clean and transparent recording, the period orchestra is well-balanced and the choral singing is first-rate. Even in the solemn movement, "Denn alles Fleisch", there is a sense of seriousness and devotion throughout. But perhaps the real highlights are the soaring and lyrical "Wie lieblich sine Deine Wohungen" and the closing and comforting "Selig sind der Toten." The two soloists are first-rate, with Charlotte Margiono displaying a motherly warmth in her solo number, and Rodney Giffry making a vulnerable but submissive soloist who also sings his solos in the sixth movement with a certain hope in his voice. This is indeed a wonderful recording, and a fresh view at a masterwork that has been dogged by stodgy interpretations, and the crisp choral singing is an added plus. Written on August 7, 2003 Summary: Death is not a Punisher but is my mother In a century entirely dominated by the often brutal progress of man, i.e. a male individual, through industrialization and the invention of railroads, cars, steam engines, the steel industry, coal mines and so many other - often polluting - things, in a century where the male figure of life and death dominates, alienates, exploits all beings, Brahms sings the earth, the growth of nature and grass, the call of the wild and open space, immense space and unlimited time. Brahms calls to his side the feminine, the female mother-earth from which all life and sustenance come and to which all human beings go back for their last sojourn on this planet and for their last comforting home and sleep. Brahms dedicates this Requiem to the mother, the evercomforting woman who can take all suffering men in her embrace, in her arms, in her warm tear-sprinkled patience and understanding, love in a word. Brahms moves the Requiem from the male figure of the Father, God, or the male figure of the sufferer and savior, Jesus, to the female suffering and yet comforting figure of the mother. Brahms is at the antipodes of the German myth : Death is « der Tod », hence masculine, a male character, but Brahms makes it an incarnation of the mother, the archetype of all mothers, of Mary weeping at the foot of the cross. Yet at this moment we remember what the dying Christ said, near the end, to his disciple and his mother : « See, this is your son ! See, this is your mother ! » This reflects the suffering of Brahms in front of a world that is changing too fast and is becoming blindingly inhumane, in front of the loss of his friend Schumann and the loss of his own mother. He is able to recapture his lost past, the love of his mother, the friendship of Schumann, the comforting certainty of mother-earth, in this shifting of a death dominated requiem into a motherly and comforting communion with the very principle of humanity that the mother represents on Earth. In fact he goes back to the old Romanic and Romanesque tradition of the mother church in the Middle Ages and rediscovers the mother in a male dominated Germanic world. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 1991-05-10 | 1999-01-12 | 1990-10-25 | 1991-02-08 | 2000-02-29 | 1995-04-11 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Format | - | Original recording remastered | - | Import | - | Box set |
| Ean | 0028943214025 | 0724356695528 | 0089408009228 | 0028942977921 | 0040888010920 | 0028944214222 |
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