discography

A world removed from the grand and awesome visions of the Last Judgement that so often characterize settings of the Mass for the Dead, Brahms conceived a work of ‘consolation for those who are suffering’. Having spent more than ten years absorbing this German ‘humanist’ requiem, this album’s performers have meticulously shaped every bar of this compact work, achieving a form of polyphonic transparency that confounds the senses and transcends the universality of its message. After more than ten years of working with a German… and humanist Requiem, the performers on this album have meticulously crafted each bar of this dense work to achieve a form of astonishing polyphonic transparency – thus transcending the universality of its message.