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The model for this special version of the "German Requiem" was Arnold Schoenberg’s "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (Society for Private Musical Performances). Between 1918 and 1921, various large-scale works were arranged for chamber music and rehearsed in public by the society in order to make compositional details and musical progressions audible.

With no more than 14 instruments, a vocal ensemble, and soloists, the chamber version of the Brahms Requiem – conceived and developed in Walter Nußbaum’s conducting class at the HMTMH – is realized.

The gain in interpretive flexibility and transparency of the performance is enormous:
"Tonal colors, nuanced agogics, agile articulations – everything that chamber music offers can be realized here," says Walter Nußbaum of the streamlined score.

Anton Webern’s early masterpiece for large orchestra is also a marvel of orchestration, whose reduced version was frequently performed in Schoenberg’s private music circle. Much like Brahms’ Requiem, the “Six Pieces” are also closely connected to the death of the composer’s mother.

Soprano | Hanna Herfurtner
Baritone | Jonas Müller
SCHOLA HEIDELBERG & ensemble aisthesis
Conductor | Walter Nußbaum

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