Brahms' greatest, most ambitious vocal work is a masterpiece of choral music that is now one of the most performed and recorded works in the repertoire of religious music. Reprinted in full score, including solo voices, chorus and orchestra, from definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition. Reprinted in full score, including solo voices, chorus and orchestra, from definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition.
SKU: BR.PB-16109
ISBN 9790004214367. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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)authoritative music text based on the current state of research; erroneous traditional readings corrected; orchestra material tried and tested; new piano vocal score (compact engraving, clear legibility).
SKU: 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.
SKU: BR.OB-16109-11
ISBN 9790004347362. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-16109-15
ISBN 9790004347379. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-16109-16
ISBN 9790004347386. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-16109-23
ISBN 9790004347409. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-16109-19
ISBN 9790004347393. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-16109-27
ISBN 9790004347416. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: CA.1039800
ISBN 9790007251345. Key: D major. German/English. Text: J.P. Morgan; Friedrich Schiller.
Brahms' elegy Nanie op. 82, based on the poem by Friedrich von Schiller, was composed in 1880/81 following the death of the painter Anselm Feuerbach, whom Brahms greatly admired. In contrast with the poem, Brahms' Nanie ends full of hope: after earthly decline, beauty can live on in art. As in his Deutsches Requiem op. 45, in Nanie Brahms creates a musical connection between mourning and consolation in an incomparable way. Inspired by the model of classical Roman-Greek laments, the work adopts the classical verse form chosen by Schiller - surely alluding to Feuerbach's classically-inspired art.Scored for mixed chorus and orchestra, we are publishing the work in a modern Urtext edition. One or more harps can be used ad lib. The primary source is the first printed edition of 1881. The latest scholarly discoveries as well as practical requirements have been taken into consideration. Performance material is available on sale as well as a vocal score, based on Brahms's original vocal score, but in a revised performing version.
SKU: CA.1039812
ISBN 9790007292966. Key: D major. German/English. Text: J.P. Morgan; Friedrich Schiller.
SKU: CA.1039811
ISBN 9790007292959. Key: D major. German/English. Text: J.P. Morgan; Friedrich Schiller.
SKU: CA.1039805
ISBN 9790007251369. Key: D major. German/English. Text: J.P. Morgan; Friedrich Schiller.
SKU: CA.1039809
ISBN 9790007292942. Key: D major. German/English. Text: J.P. Morgan; Friedrich Schiller.
SKU: CA.1039813
ISBN 9790007292973. Key: D major. German/English. Text: J.P. Morgan; Friedrich Schiller.