Recording from 22. Mar 2024

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

When his mentor Robert Schumann died in 1856, Brahms began sketching a commemorative symphony that never saw the light of day. Nine years later, at the death of his mother, Brahms picked up some strands from that project and started again. No longer a symphony, this music would now become Brahms’s unprecedented and profoundly moving Requiem - a mighty but reassuring work that glows with spiritual comfort rather than hectoring with the threat of impending judgment.