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Post Subject: The Deutsches Requiem of My DreamsPosted by Paul S on: 1/1/2015
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For the past couple of months I have been fascinated with Brahms’ "Ein deutches Requiem". I have several versions, but none matched the version I would “hear in my head” whenever I was not actually listening to the piece, until I heard the 1947 version by the VPO, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, with the Choral Society of the Friends of Music, with Hans Hotter and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, soloists. All names are worth mentioning, I think, because of the very high quality of this performance, in parts and as a whole. I LOVE the pacing and the voicing! I highly recommend this performance.
My copy is a rather nasty Naxos CD, 8.1110.38. I would be very pleased to find a better-sounding source.
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