Requiem Highlights
Tobias Brommann has compiled his requiem highlights from our program, including lesser-known works by Biber, Lachner, and Jommelli. Have fun discovering!
Entries by Tobias Brommann
Brahms as a choral composer
Brahms’s Deutsches Requiem (German Requiem): you only need to mention this work, and many choral singers spontaneously sigh with pleasure. It is one of those works in the magnificent canon of choral literature which everyone wants to sing at some point. At least once. But what about the many short, choral-symphonic works by Brahms, for example the Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) or Nänie? These pieces are no less magnificent, but they present choral directors with the challenge of how to find suitable works to program with them. Tobias Brommann, Choral director at Berlin Cathedral, gives some tips.
