Interview: Kent Nagano on recreating the 1868 premiere of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem

Andrew Farach-Colton
Friday, January 24, 2025

Kent Nagano has recorded Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem as it was presented at the work’s Bremen premiere on Good Friday 1868, without the yet-to-be-composed fifth movement, but with musical interpolations and vast choral forces. Andrew Farach-Colton finds out more

Kent Nagano (photography: Antoine Saito)
Kent Nagano (photography: Antoine Saito)

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