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Brahms - A German Requiem | LPO LPO0045

Brahms - A German Requiem

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Label: LPO

Cat No: LPO0045

Barcode: 0854990001451

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th March 2010

Contents

Artists

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Stephane Degout (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir

Conductor

Yannick Nezet-Seguin

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45

Artists

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Stephane Degout (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir

Conductor

Yannick Nezet-Seguin

About

Newly appointed as the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor after just one appearance with the ensemble, Yannick Nézet-Séguin came to London in April 2009 to conduct Brahms’s profound A German Requiem. He presided over a performance of rare reflection and inevitability at the Royal Festival Hall that prompted an extraordinary silence from a capacity audience.

In the young Canadian’s hands, Brahms’s uplifting choral masterpiece is marked by astutely judged tempi, emphasising the drama and drawing in and immersing the listener into this live concert recording.

Under the conspicuously talented Yannick Nezet-Seguin it shone, it thundered, it inspired awe and consolation in equal measure. I can’t honestly remember when it last sounded so all-enveloping...With wonderfully sensitive and articulate singing from the London Philharmonic Choir the fine balance between the work’s deep and abiding compassion and its death-defying exultation was memorably achieved. Awe was duly forthcoming as the mighty cortege of “Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras” rolled out, low horns and pounding timpani accentuating its black splendour, and those fugal codas were properly rollocking, hopeful affairs – blasts from the past powering towards the future.’ - The Independent, April 2009

The choral singing was wonderfully intense, and soloists Elizabeth Watts and Stéphane Degout were both outstanding. The long silence at its close, which no one dared fracture with applause, was testament to its impact.’ - The Guardian, April 2009

Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London on 4 April 2009.

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