Brahms: A German Requiem (New English Adaptation)
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Performer: Nathan GunnComposer: Johannes Brahms
Conductor: Craig D. Jessop
Orchestra: Utah Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Janice Chandler
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- I. Blest Are They That Mourn
- II. Behold, All Flesh Is As The Grass
- III. Lord, Make Me To Know
- IV. How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place
- V. Ye Now Are Sorrowful
- VI. Here On Earth Have We No Continuing Place
- VII. Blessed Are The Dead
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Music Review: A Luminous Brahms Requiem in English
Rating: 5 Stars
Among the handful of great recordings of the Brahms German requiem, this version by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a buried treasure. It is undoubtedly a deeply humane recording, brimming with the spirit that Brahms wanted us to feel when we listen to this work. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has never sounded as immediate and subtly-nuanced as they do in this finely-recorded Telarc performance of a superb English adaptation of the Brahms German Requiem by the late Robert Shaw, and it captures the melancholy, radiance and luminous beauty that abounds throughout this beautiful work. One only needs to listen to the first, second and fourth movements to experience the contrasting moods of the Choir, with its consistend impeccable musicianship. The soloists that Craig Jessop has chosen for this recording are superb and magnificent, conveying the right moods in their solo passages. Janice Chandler's ethereal soprano solo in the fifth movement has an otherworldly quality that reminds us that the death of Brahms's mother was one of the key influences on the work, and Nathan Gunn subtly varies the mood of his contributions according to the text. His helpless and vulnerable tone manifests itself in the third movement, Lord, make me to know (Herr, lehre doch mich). I admit that some listeners who review after me may find him a whiney soloist in this movement, but he fits the mood of the solo parts perfectly. He also conveys an optimistic strength in the sixth movement, coping admirably with the hopefulness of the text. The Utah Symphony Orchestra plays with idiomatic conviction and rises to the demands of this music as admirably as you would expect from the Vienna or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, and Telarc's recorded sound is as realistic and crystal-clear as always. An added plus about this release is the informative and lucid sleeve note by Nick Jones, complete with a movement-by-movement analysis to match the printed corresponding texts. Overall, this is a recording of the Brahms German Requiem I can recommend heartily to stand alongside any existing recordings of the work by the likes of Gardiner and Klemperer, and I'm sure that this recording will go a long way in popularising performances of this beautiful choral work in English.
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