Slippedisc daily comfort zone (65): A German consolation

Slippedisc daily comfort zone (65): A German consolation

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

June 30, 2021

 

 

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  • RW2013 says:
    June 30, 2021 at 10:50 am

    kein Sommermärchen
    kein Sommermärchen
    no more Jogi Löw
    winter for Germany
    springtime for Brexity
    long may she reign over us
    God save the Queen!

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  • John Borstlap says:
    June 30, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    This movement of Brahms’ German Requiem is a piece of pure genius, and – even for Brahms – entirely traditional in terms of musical language. Such sublime music is the best that German culture has produced. Together with Bach and Beethoven, the top of the German musical mountain.

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    • Marfisa says:
      July 1, 2021 at 8:39 pm

      And hovering above all three, the greater genius Heinrich Schütz, who profoundly influenced Brahms.

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      • John Borstlap says:
        July 2, 2021 at 10:22 am

        Yes, but Schütz’s name does not begin with the obligatory B. He should be renamed Bütz.

        ‘To B, to B, or not to B, that is the question’.

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