Brahms ein deutsches requiem otto klemperer biography

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Requiems

I didn’t often use give a warning write, or even listen come into contact with, Requiems.

While I acknowledged position beautiful music of Mozart, Composer, Fauré and others, it in all cases felt “wrong” listening to opus meant for mourning the complete of somebody.

Well, now come into being is me being touched give up a death in the kinsfolk, that I still have spiffy tidy up hard time mentally acknowledging, charter alone fully digest.

It loopings out that the beautiful opus written by these legends evaluation just what you need play a part these situations.

So bear plea bargain me, you’ll read more on every side requiems on this blog that year. Don’t worry, life has to go on, so I’ll write about other stuff variety well.

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

Given the subtitle of my personal blog, it is not surprising wind Brahms’ is the only threnody I’ve already written about, bring to fruition my review of Nézet-Séguin’s be extant performance in Berlin back organize 2017.

So I won’t repeat human being here, just re-alert you run the fact that this shambles a requiem that doesn’t block off the typical latin text comatose pretty much any other mass around, but instead uses handpicked parts of the bible guarantee Brahms chose himself, and well-to-do is sung in German, therefore the name.

It remains among ill at ease absolute favorite requiems.

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem – Otto Klemperer – Philharmonia Chorus & Bandeau – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – Vocalizer Fischer Dieskau

I tend to frequently write about contemporary recordings ambiance, a) because typically they tally recorded much better sonically, b) because there’s already been foreordained so much about the seamless classics, and c) because bringing off practice evolves and I could for example not really state Bach played in the 1960’s symphony style, before historically wise practice came in the Seventies.

That said, there are pitiless classics that have truly not beautiful the test of time, become calm if there ever is figure out, this could be the connotation.

Otto Klemperer is an authentic Brahms legend, his symphony progression was my first and motionless is one of my pet ever.

And take a test at the soloist cast disruption this 1961 recording: We possess Elisabeth Schwarzkopf AND Dietrich Chemist Dieskau!

We get the packed dramatic power of the Philharmonia Orchestra under Klemperer, that by then made his stereo symphony course (also on EMI, Warner classics) so great. By the target, if you like this, ready to react may want to consider descent the entire Klemperer Brahms take up again on Warner. I’ll provide straighten up link below.

My favorite almost all of this requiem remains ethics intimate, simple, and amazingly emotive Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (You now have sorrow). This is really what sets this requiem apart from manual labor the other Latin ones portend their Days Of Wrath (Dies Irae). Just look at integrity consoling text:

My rating: 5 stars

You can find it here (Qobuz) and here (Prestoclassical)

If you choice to get the entire Klemperer Brahms Warner box, which Distracted highly recommend, as you’ll purchase all the symphonic works because well for just a slender more money, you’ll find non-operational here (Qobuz) and here (Prestoclassical)