Brahms - Complete Symphonies & A German Requiem
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Label: SWR Classic
Cat No: SWR19529CD
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Release Date: 10th September 2021
Contents
Artists
Christina Landshamer (soprano)Florian Boesch (bass)
SWR Voklaensemble Stuttgart
NDR Chor
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Conductor
Roger NorringtonWorks
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45Symphonies 1-4 (complete)
Artists
Christina Landshamer (soprano)Florian Boesch (bass)
SWR Voklaensemble Stuttgart
NDR Chor
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Conductor
Roger NorringtonAbout
This reissue of Brahms’s four symphonies, recorded in 2005, continues Norrington’s artistic credo of keeping as close as possible to the composer’s expectations. One of the main features – beside the ‘pure sound’ that uses no vibrato – are the quick tempi. Brahms left no metronome indications in his symphonies. However, the overall timings left by the Brahms conductor Hans von Bülow are so short, compared to those of today, that there can have been no very slow tempi in his interpretations. Norrington also considered one of the many hints left by another admired conductor and friend of Brahms, Fritz Steinbach: “By all means conduct the opening of Brahms’ First Symphony in 6, but it must sound in 2.”
A German Requiem is one of Brahms’ most popular compositions. Although the texts are taken from the Bible, the piece is not part of any ecclesiastical-liturgical tradition. Rather, it is aimed – as Brahms himself expressly emphasised – at people “who are in mourning” and unlike the Requiem of the Catholic Mass of the Dead, it is not a liturgical prayer for the souls of the deceased, but rather intended to console the bereaved.
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