Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, OP. 45
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Actor: Barbara Bonney, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bryn Terfel, Claudio Abbado, The Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arthaus Musik
Movie Reviews of Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, OP. 45
Movie Review: Heart Breaking
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so glad that this performance has been reissued. The TDK issue of this performance is close to impossible to find anymore.
Everything about this dvd has to be greatly admired. The sound captured on the recording is pristine (with the exception of the audience coughing in between the movements) and well balanced. The video direction and cinematography (if such a word is appropriate) is engaging and gorgeous, never indulging in unnecessary visual elements.
As for the performance itself, I have heard various accounts of this magnifecent work. Among them the Karajan '47 recording, the Gardiner recording for Phillips, the Levine recording for RCA, and the Sir Colin Davis recording for RCA, and none of them save probably the old and tattered Karajan recording could possibly come close to such a beautiful and yet tragically emotional performance of this work. Throughout the recording Abbado can be seen to scarcely enforce his constitution, always at the brink of breaking down entirely and his orchestra can sense that and reply in a completely heart-warming and tearful manner.
The second movement, Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras, especially is superb. There is no music more terrifying than hearing the fearful decree of the fatality of man coupled with a menacing march that grows ever more intense and yet can within the next few measures comfort one so immensely at the coming redemption of all man.
This is truly a musical as well as a spiritual marvel. No heart will be unmoved by music of such unearthly perfection and so faithful and endearing a performance.
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