„Ein Deutsches Requiem“

Brahms set his own texts for this: not the Latin mass for the dead but words he chose from the German Bible, and the piece that results is addressed to the living rather than offered for the dead — its first movement begins with the blessing of those who mourn. The Bachchor Weimar sings it here with the Orchester Neue Hofmusik Weimar under Johannes Kleinjung.