In each of our lives there are times when we must make sense of death, finding closure and peace, offering tribute, finding a reason for hope. Some of the world’s best loved music has attempted to do ...

“Blest are they who mourn, for they shall have comfort”. These words, forming the opening phrases of the Brahms’ Requiem, are taken from Matthew 5:4 and are part of the well-known and much-loved ...

“A German Requiem” by Brahms without an orchestra and massive choir? You read that right. The award-winning vocal ensemble Bella Voce, under the baton of its artistic director Andrew Lewis, is ...

Given music’s ability to comfort in difficult times, many composers have penned musical memorials. Some have been settings of traditional Latin texts of the Requiem Mass for liturgical use, from ...

With the coronavirus pandemic raging and no public performances in the forseeable future, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is streaming its acclaimed performance of Brahms' Requiem – free. April ...

Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem, one of the most beloved choral works in the classical music repertoire, is the centerpiece of the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s spring concerts on June 14 in ...

It was a work Brahms labored over for a dozen years. Consoled by the psalms, the gospels, and the prophets, he set their words to his music. Music that would be his grandest. Perhaps even his greatest ...