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A German Requiem (Ein deutsches Requiem)
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performers: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Recording date: 13 February 2011
Date of broadcast: 16 February 2011
This Requiem is unusual. It is a sacred work, but does not follow the Latin liturgy. Instead Brahms assembled the words based on the Lutheran bible, to be sung in the German language, thus propelling his requiem to the heart of the emerging German nation.
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performers: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Recording date: 13 February 2011
Date of broadcast: 16 February 2011