Although severely spoiled for choice, probably my Brahms piece for the desert-island is German Requiem. Which recording? That’s for another day. Meanwhile, Edward Gardner leads a well-prepared, clearly detailed, generously expressed account, contemplative, transporting and – in those fugal passages indebted to Bach and Handel – thrilling, featuring an excellent combined chorus, two splendid soloists … Continue reading Edward Gardner records Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem for Chandos with Bergen Philharmonic.