Rencontres Musicales D’Evian 2017 – Brahms
Pianists Nicholas Angelich and Martin Helmchen, along with the excellent Choir of Bayerischer Rundfunk, conductor Howard Arman, baritone Kresimir Strazanac and soprano Rachel Harnisch, tackle the two-piano version of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, an intimate and delicate arrangement of his masterpiece that the composer himself wrote and dedicated to Clara Schumann. In the secluded wooden theatre of La Grange au Lac , to words derived directly from Martin Luther’s German Bible, everything is indeed set for the sacred and the divine to resonate in the most personal fashion: an extraordinary experience, filled with artistic excellency and humble contemplation.