- Audio CD (Mar 17 2008)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Universal Music Group
- ASIN: B000001GEM
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#29,512 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #73 in Music > Classical > Sacred & Religious > Requiems
- #74 in Music > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Requiems
- #78 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Requiems, Elegies & Tombeau
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Track Listings
| 1. Ein deutsches Requiem op.45: Selig sind, die da Leid tragen |
| 2. Ein deutsches Requiem op.45: Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras |
| 3. Ein deutsches Requiem op.45: Herr, lehre doch mich |
| 4. Ein deutsches Requiem op.45: Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen |
| 5. Ein deutsches Requiem op.45: Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit |
| 6. Ein deutsches Requiem op.45: Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt |
| 7. Ein deutsches Requiem op.45: Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herrn sterben |
Product Description
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What could be wrong with this disc--Brahms' beloved Requiem, interpreted by Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic, sung by José van Dam and Barbara Hendricks? Nothing. Karajan here rejects idiosyncrasies and histrionics, in favor of a straightforward, impeccably balanced, lushly romantic performance that is, in a word, irresistible. And the soloists have seldom sounded better. --Joshua Cody
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Karajan >> << Brahms,
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This review is from: A German Requiem (Audio CD)
As important as Brahms is to the Classical world and as great as his music is, it would be a far lesser thing without the incredible interpretation of von Karajan. I choose to look past all the many criticisms - too stolid, too slow, too grand, too careful - and look at the final product. Brahms inhabited Karajan's soul as no other composer with the possible exception of Richard Strauss. I have the Symphonies (two versions), the Concertos and now the Requiem. The music is simultaneously beautiful and touching, moving on several levels. I have often wondered about the artists and their fount of inventiveness. What is Brahms "trying to say"? This is not the traditional Requiem of a Verdi, Mozart, Schubert or Beethoven. No, it is more a celebration of the human spirit. If you must get only one version, this is the one. The voices are clear, the orchestra just the right tone, the longing and "Germanenss" of the music stand out above all. It has that haunting forest mood that inhabits so much of Brahm's music.
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The mother becomes the Go-Between of Death,
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This review is from: A German Requiem (Audio CD)
In a century entirely dominated by the often brutal progress of man, i.e. a male individual, through industrialization and the invention of railroads, cars, steam engines, the steel industry, coal mines and so many other - often polluting - things, in a century where the male figure of life and death dominates, alienates, exploits all beings, Brahms sings the earth, the growth of nature and grass, the call of the wild and open space, immense space and unlimited time. Brahms calls to his side the feminine, the female mother-earth from which all life and sustenance come and to which all human beings go back for their last sojourn on this planet and for their last comforting home and sleep. Brahms dedicates this Requiem to the mother, the evercomforting woman who can take all suffering men in her embrace, in her arms, in her warm tear-sprinkled patience and understanding, love in a word. Brahms moves the Requiem from the male figure of the Father, God, or the male figure of the sufferer and savior, Jesus, to the female suffering and yet comforting figure of the mother. Brahms is at the antipodes of the German myth : Death is « der Tod », hence masculine, a male character, but Brahms makes it an incarnation of the mother, the archetype of all mothers, of Mary weeping at the foot of the cross. Yet at this moment we remember what the dying Christ said, near the end, to his disciple and his mother : « See, this is your son ! See, this is your mother ! » This reflects the suffering of Brahms in front of a world that is changing too fast and is becoming blindingly inhumane, in front of the loss of his friend Schumann and the loss of his own mother. He is able to recapture his lost past, the love of his mother, the friendship of Schumann, the comforting certainty of mother-earth, in this shifting of a death dominated requiem into a motherly and comforting communion with the very principle of humanity that the mother represents on Earth. In fact he goes back to the old Romanic and Romanesque tradition of the mother church in the Middle Ages and rediscovers the mother in a male dominated Germanic world. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Singing, tuneful performance,
By Blygman (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A German Requiem (Audio CD)
I just compared Klemperer/Gardiner/3 Karajan's versions/Masur/Barenboïm /Shaw. This is the one I prefer because of the singing tempo, the articulation is just superb, very tuneful. If only, the solists were rather the Janovitch & Meyer combo of another Karajan's version but whose rythm is too flat & bland compared to this one, the ideal match would be met. I also really liked Rodney Gilfry in Gardiner's version & Janet Williams in Barenboïm's.
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