Ein deutsche Requiem

Johannes Brahms


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.

Raphaël Pichon and Johannes Brahms have a long history together. The conductor had previously conducted A German Requiem in 2015 at the La Chaise-Dieu Festival, in a version for two pianos, and gave a striking performance of it at the Bacalan submarine base in Bordeaux during the 2021 edition of the Pulsations festival, before a European tour.

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harmonia mundi

1 hour 06 minutes — 1 CD — 10 October 2025

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Choir
Camille Allérat, Armelle Cardot, Adèle Carlier, Cécile Dalmon, Eugénie de Padirac, Alice Foccroule, Nadia Lavoyer, Lucie Minaudier, Marie Planinsek, Laurence Pouderoux, Camille Souquère, sopranos
Anne-Lou Bissières, Clotilde Cantau, Anouk Defontenay, Astrid Dupuis, Rita Duarte Ferreira Filipe, Pauline Leroy, Marie Pouchelon, Clémence Vidal, altos
Didier Chassaing, Constantin Goubet, Vincent Laloy, Gaël Martin, Carlos Negrín Lopez, Olivier Rault, Randol Rodriguez, Ryan Veillet, Abel Zamora, tenors
Frédéric Bourreau, Sorin Dumitrascu, Guillaume Olry, Louis-Pierre Patron, René Ramos Premier, Viktor Shapovalov, Alvaro Valles Cecilio, Pierre Virly, Emmanuel Vistorky, basses

Orchestra
Afanasy Chupin, Aude Caulé-Lefèvre, Blandine Chemin, Helena Druwé, Julie Friez, Ravenna Lipchik, Sophia Prodanova, Magdalena Sypniewski, Yukiko Tezuka, violins 1
Louis Creac'h, Paul-Marie Beauny, Anne Camillo, Roldan Barnabé Carrion, Gabriel Ferry, Izleh Henry, Charles-Etienne Marchand, Raphaëlle Pacault, violins 2
Hélène Desaint, Hélène Barre, Delphine Blanc, Aya Murakami, Chloé Parisot, Jeanne-Marie Raffner, Pierre Vallet, violas
Julien Barre, Arnold Bretagne, Thomas Duran, Nicolas Fritot, Jean-Lou Loger, Lucie Perrin, Gesine Queyras, cellos
Yann Dubost, Ludek Brany, François Leyrit, Michael Neuhaus, David Sinclair, double basses
Georgia Browne, Raquel Martorell Dorta, flutes
Giulia Barbini, piccolo
Jasu Moisio, Lidewei de Sterck, oboes
Nicolas Boud, Fiona Mitchell, clarinets
Javier Zafra, Ambroise Dojat, bassoons
Robert Percival, contrabassoon
Anneke Scott, Jospeh Walters, Ulrich Huebner, Martin Lawrence, french horns
Emmanuel Mure, Philippe Genestier, trumpets
Charlie Maussion, Alexis Lahens, Franck Poitrineau, trombones
Patrick Wibart , ophicleide
Koen Plaetinck, timpani
Marion Sicouly, harp

Raphaël Pichon, direction