Video Information

• Choir: Downtown Voices
• Piece: Brahms Requiem
• Composer:  Brahms
• Conductor:  Stephen Sands
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical
• Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45
  Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
  Chamber Orchestra Version by Ingo Schulz
  Trinity Church, NYC
  
  Downtown Voices (https://Downt...  moreEin deutsches Requiem, op. 45
  Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
  Chamber Orchestra Version by Ingo Schulz
  Trinity Church, NYC
  
  Downtown Voices (https://DowntownVoices.net)
  NOVUS
  Sonya Headlam, soprano
  Brian Mextorf, bass
  Stephen Sands, conductor (https://StephenSands.net)
  
  (0:01) Selig sind, die da Leid tragen
  (11:47) Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras
  (25:42) Herr, lehre doch mich, daß ein Ende
  (35:25) Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
  (41:02) Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit
  (48:10) Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt
  (59:40) Selig sind die Toten
  
  Concert Program with Texts and Translations: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pszTEzRopceEebWO-JlfHKZ3EkFW4k1f/view?usp=sharing
  
  PROGRAM NOTES
  
  Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem is often called a “human” Requiem, and that word points to both the text he chose and the life he was living while writing it. Between the mid‑1850s and the late 1860s, he was drawn into the Schumann household, deeply attached to Clara Schumann, marked by the death of Robert Schumann, shaken by a br  less