Zimmermann Ecclesiastical Action, for two speakers, bass and orchestra
Brahms A German Requiem

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Miah Persson soprano (A German Requiem)
Dietrich Henschel bass-baritone
Omar Ebrahim Speaker 1 (Ecclesiastical Action)
Malcolm Sinclair Speaker 2 (Ecclesiastical Action)
Annabel Arden director
London Philharmonic Choir



Five days after completing his ‘ecclesiastical action’ And Turning Then, I Saw There Great Injustice That is Done Under the Heavens, Bernd Alois Zimmermann took his own life. His oratorio on passages from Ecclesiastes and Dostoevsky is a grim, hard-hitting prophecy of loss and emptiness; a stark piece of performance art inextricably connected to the Fluxus school of late 1960s Germany. It stands in utter contrast to the hopeful humanity of Brahms’s German Requiem. Brahms’s glowing messages of brotherhood and consolation will feel renewed by Zimmermann’s urgent challenge to them.

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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45 - I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45 - II. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45 - IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45 - VII. Selig sind die Toten

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