Utwory na płycie:

• II. Behold all flesh is as the grass
• III. Lord, make me to know the measure of my days
• V. Ye now are sorrowful

Blessed are they that mourn
Behold, all flesh is as the grass
Lord, make me to know the measure of my days
How lovely is Thy dwelling place
Ye now are sorrowful
Here on earth have we no continuing place
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord

Since its London premiere in 1871, Brahms’s German Requiem has enjoyed immense popularity in the UK, in both its orchestral and chamber versions. But the setting we know today is not the one that nineteenth-century British audiences knew and loved. The work was rarely performed here in German; rather, it was almost always sung in an English translation, and was even known by some as An English Requiem.

In its sixth Delphian recording, The Choir of King’s College London revives the nineteenthcentury English setting in which Brahms’s masterpiece established itself as a favourite among its earliest British audiences. Under its new director Joseph Fort, the choir is joined by pianists James Baillieu and Richard Uttley, and soloists Mary Bevan and Marcus Farnsworth.

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Recorded on 7-9 April 2017 in Trinity School, Croydon