Brahms Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (2010) [repost]

Gundula Janowitz - Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem, Op.45 (1965/2018/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Gundula Janowitz - Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem, Op.45 (1965/2018/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 76:48 minutes | 1,52 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The chorus standing in (literally) serried ranks, singing from memory; rich, turbo-charged orchestral playing… it all seems more Cecil B de Mille than Brahms.
Cappella Amsterdam - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Live) (2019)

Cappella Amsterdam - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Live) (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 328 MB | Digital Booklet | 01:10:25
Classical | Label: Glossa

Johannes Brahms’ consolatory Ein deutsches Requiem receives a fresh and considered interpretation from Daniel Reuss and the Orchestra Of The Eighteenth Century. This renowned orchestra took the decision - following the death, some years back, of Frans Brüggen - to retain its founder’s dynamic process of alternating concert tours with recordings. Dispensing with the need for having a principal conductor, the orchestra now works with a range of musicians according to the repertoire being performed.
Cappella Amsterdam, Orchestra of the 18th Century & Daniel Reuss - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Live) (2019)

Cappella Amsterdam, Orchestra of the 18th Century & Daniel Reuss - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (Live) (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | Artwork included | 01:10:24 | 322 Mb
Classical, Choral, Sacred | Label: Glossa Music

Johannes Brahms’ consolatory Ein deutsches Requiem receives a fresh and considered interpretation from Daniel Reuss and the Orchestra Of The Eighteenth Century. This renowned orchestra took the decision - following the death, some years back, of Frans Brüggen - to retain its founder’s dynamic process of alternating concert tours with recordings. Dispensing with the need for having a principal conductor, the orchestra now works with a range of musicians according to the repertoire being performed.
John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (1991)

John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 65:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 432 140-2 | Recorded: 1990

Musical settings of the Requiem understandably encompass a vast expressive gamut, from Mozart's fear and trembling to the seraphic gentleness of Fauré. But the focus in Brahms's German Requiem–his first large-scale work–is not so much on the departed as on those left behind and the work of memory. In lieu of the traditional Latin liturgy, Brahms uses texts culled from the Lutheran Bible that range from despair at our mortal condition to the solace offered by faith. John Elliott Gardiner and his forces here attempt to replicate the orchestral sound and style of Brahms's own time, using period bowing practices for the strings and mellow Viennese horns, to cite a few examples. The result is a magnificent and deeply moving performance that features excellent integration of the orchestra and chorus.

Philippe Herreweghe - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (2008)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Nov. 14, 2024
Philippe Herreweghe - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (2008)

Philippe Herreweghe - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 66:15 | 288 MB
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: 501608

This is a rather brisk reading of Brahms' masterpiece, the most ambitious work in his output and one of the greatest compositions of its type. Though Herreweghe's tempos often pushed the music to its limits here (except for the first section), the performance never actually sounded fast, or at least not offensively fast. In fact, it challenges the Levine/RCA effort.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: Symphonies Nos.31, 39-41; Schubert: Symphony No.4 (2007/1984)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: Symphonies Nos.31, 39-41; Schubert: Symphony No.4 (2007/1984)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.81 Gb+6.29 Gb (2xDVD9) | 232 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Schubert's 'Tragic' Symphony and Mozart's 'Paris' Symphony are performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Wiener Musikvereinsaal in 1984. Harnoncourt goes back to Schubert's original manuscripts to perform the music in its purest form. Harnoncourt joined forces with The Chamber Orchestra of Europe for Mozart's last symphonies (Nos. 39-41), performed at the Wiener Musikvereinssaal in 1991. Known throughout the world for his highly original approach to classical music, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt reveres Mozart as 'the most romantic composer of all'.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2006/2003)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2006/2003)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 5 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 4,35 + 6,22 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 160 min
Classical | TDK | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

TDK presents a truly new way of looking at La clemenza di Tito with this famous and star-studded production from the Salzburg Festival 2003. Here Nikolaus Harnoncourt, renowned for his analytical approach to the search for the core of the music, interprets Mozart’s last opera. Martin Kušej, who is acclaimed for his theatre productions directs the production. Nikolaus Harnoncourt identifies with Mozart’s score as both an extremely knowledgeable musician and a conductor who invariably plays an active part in helping to shape the drama. Together with the Vienna Philharmonic, he savours the miracles of Mozart’s late work, bringing out its instrumental colours and effects and at the same time stimulating his singers while proving a solicitous accompanist.
Wilhelm Furtwängler - Brahms: The Symphonies, Ein deutsches Requiem, Concertos (2018)

Wilhelm Furtwängler - Brahms: The Symphonies, Ein deutsches Requiem, Concertos (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,38 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 934 Mb | 06:48:11
Classical | Label: Erato Records, Warner Classics

MONO • HISTORICAL RECORDINGS FROM 1942-1952. Wilhelm Furtwängler saw “a wild, fantastic and even demonic universe” in the symphonies of Brahms. “Music is not something that is invented and constructed,” he wrote, “but something that grows, emerging … directly from the hands of nature.” With organic development so crucial to Brahms’ music, his symphonies were destined for a prominent place in Furtwängler’s repertoire. Among the other works in this collection are the Violin Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin, and the Piano Concerto No. 2 with Edwin Fischer, both recognised as landmark interpretations.
Philharmonisches Staatsorchest - Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Philharmonisches Staatsorchest - Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem (2025) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 92:52 minutes | 948 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Recorded in August 2022 at concerts given in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie by the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg under Kent Nagano, this version of Johannes Brahms's celebrated choral masterpiece will come as a surprise to many.
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg & Kent Nagano - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (2025)

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg & Kent Nagano - Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:32:44 | 419 Mb
Genre: Classical

Recorded in August 2022 at concerts given in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie by the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg under Kent Nagano, this version of Johannes Brahms’s celebrated choral masterpiece will come as a surprise to many. The German Requiem is heard not in its usual seven movement version, but rather as it was first performed in Bremen Cathedral on 10th April 1868 (Good Friday) under Brahms’s direction, without the fifth movement for soprano and choir that was completed later that year. On the other hand, there are numerous interludes, instrumental and vocal, secular and sacred, by Bach, Tartini, Schumann and Handel – including pieces that were then regarded as essential parts of a Good Friday concert. Such a programme might seem unusual today, but these musical additions shed new light on Brahms’s work, which in this version manifests itself as what Umberto Eco might have described as an ‘open work’. Presenting the work in the form heard at the Bremen premiere is more than just a reconstruction: it enriches our understanding of this unique music.