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Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Johannes Brahms

Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Jan Willem de Vriend

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917273823
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Catalog number: CC 72738
Releasedate: 07-10-16
- Never before has this masterpiece sounded more precise and brilliant.
- Everything fits like glove: musicians, conductor and sound technique at the highest of their abilities everyone working with intense focus and musical drive.
- This can easily be a new reference recording of the Requiem!
- Since adopting a new artistic profile, The Hague Philharmonic is demonstrating more than ever that symphonic music can still be meaningful to large and diverse audiences in the 21st century.
- The last years conductor Jan Willem de Vriend has been chief conductor of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and season 16/17 will be his last season there
- Dutch conductor De Vriend gets a lot of praise from critics worldwide for his performances and recordings,such as the Beethoven Symphony recordings and the Beethoven piano concerto’s with Hannes Minnaar
- Soprano Renate Arends and baritone Thomas Oliemans are internationally acclaimed soloists with both beautiful and strong careers in opera, oratorium and song.
Since adopting a new artistic profile, the Hague Philharmonic is demonstrating more than ever that symphonic music can still be meaningful to large and diverse audiences in the 21st century. At the new Zuiderstrandtheater in Scheveningen, the orchestra's home venue, prior to concerts audiences are treated to a lively RO-starter pre-program of live music and interviews. Everything on this recording fits like a glove - musicians, conductor and sound technique are at the highest of their abilities. Soprano Renate Arends and baritone Thomas Oliemans are internationally acclaimed soloists with both beautiful and strong careers in opera, oratorium and song.