Brahms' greatest, most ambitious vocal work is a masterpiece of choral music that is now one of the most performed and recorded works in the repertoire of relig

"'When was the score of the Requiem completed?' is a question that everyone has asked; . . .but Wolff goes on to ask: 'Where do the technical and stylistic prem

(Editions Durand). With Organ reduction.

The writing of a requiem is a special challenge for any composer. The great requiems of the past by composers such as Mozart, Verdi and Berlioz interpret the sa

Upon the death of the Italian writer and humanist Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi had admired all his adult life, Verdi resolved to complete a Requiem for Manzon