A powerful moment of musical history recreated: Brahms’ German Requiem, played in the same place in which it premiered exactly 150 years earlier. Maddy Shaw Roberts reports from Bremen. There’s ...

In listening to Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem, Op. 45, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that this rich and reflective choral work is the summation of a long lifetime of composition and experience.

A German Requiem, Brahms’s greatest choral work, is also one of his most personal and revealing compositions. A work of melting radiance which fuses stoic resignation with a personal affirmation in ...

The idea of composing a requiem in the German language based on texts from the Lutheran Bible and the Apocrypha began to take shape in Brahms' mind in 1857, a year after the death of his friend and ...

Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem, one of the most beloved choral works in the classical music repertoire, is the centerpiece of the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s spring concerts on June 14 in ...

In each of our lives there are times when we must make sense of death, finding closure and peace, offering tribute, finding a reason for hope. Some of the world’s best loved music has attempted to do ...

At the St. Louis Symphony concert Saturday night, the intermission may have been the most memorable part of the performance. Demonstrators in the audience sang a "Requiem for Mike Brown," referencing ...

In most traditional Latin Requiems, the text focuses on the fate of the souls of the dead. In Brahms’ German Requiem, however, most of the words were chosen to offer consolation to the living. That’s ...

The word is derived from the Latin word “rest,” and is, etymologists say, the first word of the Introit in the Latin Masss of the Dead. Put another way, it is liturgical, and it is for the dead, not ...