Michał Klauza conducts Brahms's longest composition and largest-ensemble work.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contributions to the booklet from Katy Hamilton and the conductor Andrew Lewis make a persuasive case for this downsized, vernacular version of the German Requiem. Apparently playing four hands on a ...

The Elmhurst Choral Union, along with the Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra, will present “Brahms: A German Requiem” on Sunday, April 21, in Hammerschmidt Chapel. It will feature soloists Susan Nelson, ...

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 ...

A sober tread is common to both; in Munich, tempi are as expansive as you might expect, but Thielemann is too experienced a master of sustaining a line to let solemnity drag into torpor. He has at his ...