Ein Deutsches Requiem (German Requiem) by Johannes Brahms has been performed so regularly that it’s easy to forget that it’s awfully hard. I’ve done this piece so I’m not unsympathetic to the ...

Given music's ability to comfort in difficult times, many composers have penned musical memorials. Some have been settings of traditional Latin texts of the Requiem Mass for liturgical use, from ...

Music Director Rafael Payare with Bass soloist Michael Sumuel. (Photo by Jenna Gilmer/San Diego Symphony) With a tightly executed German Requiem, the San Diego Symphony’s Brahms Festival began with a ...

NEW YORK — The New York concert season drawing to a close was more or less bookended by performances of Brahms’ “A German Requiem,” intended to set the work in broader contexts. In October, Lincoln ...

Brahms wasn't having a midlife crisis when he composed his masterwork, EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (A GERMAN REQUIEM), his meditation on death. In fact, he was only 33 when he started writing it in ...

Brahms is not only one of the most famous and cherished composers in all of 19th century music, but an artist of rich and wonderful contradictions. A musical architect of incredible intellectual skill ...

Navigating life after losing a loved one is something most of us eventually experience. For composer Johannes Brahms, the death of his mother in 1865 and the loss of his mentor Robert Schumann nine ...

The Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica, and the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, are joining forces to present “A German Requiem” by ...

Simon Halsey’s tempi sensibly take the forces into account and convey solemnity without weightiness, allowing a flexibility beyond the reach of most orchestral performances: if visions of the beyond ...

POTTSVILLE — The Schuylkill Choral Society performed Johannes Brahms’ “A German Requiem” on Sunday in St. Patrick Catholic Church. Dr. Mark P. Thomas directed a chorus of more than 80 voices in the ...

The University of Wyoming choirs will present Johannes Brahms’ “A German Requiem” Saturday, May 7. The concert is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. UW ...

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