Chorus (with soloists) and orchestra (solos: SBar - choir: SATB - pic2.2.2.2.dble bsn.(ad lib) - 4.2.3.1 - timp - 2hp - org(ad lib) - str) SKU: BR.EB-9362
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition. Composed by Johannes Brahms. Choir; Softbound. Edition Breitkopf. Requiem; Romantic; Late-romantic. Piano/Vocal Score. 104 pages. Duration 75'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9362. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9362). ISBN 9790004188323. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.
The German Requiem is one of the world's most famous requiems, even though it does not set the customary requiem text to music. Brahms did not want to follow the Latin Catholic funeral mass, addressing the Last Judgment's terror and sinful human beings' redemption through death on the cross. His attention, on the contrary, was on Biblical texts that focus on human transience and comfort: comfort to the bereaved and comfort to all who fear death. To some extent, it could be called the epitome of Brahms's work. In the relevant volume of the new Brahms Complete Edition, on which this new practical edition is based, editors Michael Musgrave and Michael Struck clear up all sorts of legends, errors, and erroneous readings. Brahms's subsequent minor compositional changes are taken into account, poor decisions in previous editions are corrected, and the Bible texts sung contain writing and meaning corrections. In addition, the texts elucidate many myths about the composition's origin. Thus, this Urtext edition creates a fresh perspective on the People's Requiem, as Brahms would have preferred to call the composition. This new B&H publication is extremely good value, and it really does breathe new life into an old master. The pages of the full score are delightfully easy on the eye. The edition's visual effect is precise, lucid, and sympathetic - as, indeed, a good performance of Brahms's choral masterpiece should be.(Jeremy Summerly, Choir & Organ)
new piano vocal score with compact engraving and clear legibility; music-text page better spaced out to facilitate reading; page division largely retained overall to facilitate rehearsals; vocal-text reading corrected to conform to the Bible.
