[ Warner Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 April 2007
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
'This strikes me as probably the best new version of the Requiem I've heard in quite some years'
Disc of the Month BBC Music Magazine (April 2007)
"…this is a very impressive account of Brahms's German Requiem, deeply considered and most beautifully played and sung. The full, warm sound he draws from the Berlin Philharmonic has a sombre refulgence that becomes almost incandescent in the final movement's vision of the blessed dead. The vocal component is equally impressive, with beautiful choral singing. Thomas Quasthoff is an eloquent expounder of scripture in the baritone movements, Dorothea Röschmann ideally tender in 'Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit'" Five Stars BBC Music Disc of the month April 2007