Kent Nagano and the Brahms Requiem

Composed between 1865 and 1868, Brahms’s poignant German Requiem is a mainstay of the choral repertoire. Brahms would happily have named it “human requiem,” so firmly is the emphasis placed on the living. In seven movements, the work constitutes a true ode to consolation, composed as Brahms himself mourned both his friend Schumann and his mother. Soprano Sibylla Rubens and baritone Markus Werba, the two of them internationally acclaimed, join the OSM and its Chorus, both under the direction of Kent Nagano.