21/09 Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem

NOSONDDU

http://www.classicfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=215483&spid=9330

sorry furndire


Every Monday we have a great new prize to give away, just come back on Friday, answer each daily clue correctly and you could be one of our lucky winners.


This week's prize: The Sixteen Edition of Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem

Arranged as a piano duet by Brahms himself, this scaled down version of the Requiem enables an intimate performance by one of the world's greatest vocal ensembles.


Tuesday's Question: In what year was this version of Brahms' Requiem given its English premiere



Monday's answer was Conductor
Tuesday - 1871 (?)

furndire

Have we got a link please?

NOSONDDU

does anyone agree with Tuesday question?

Wed: Mexico

fraoch

The first complete (excepting the yet-unwritten fifth movement) performance of the Requiem in London, in July 1871 at the home of Sir Henry Thompson and his wife, the pianist Kate Loder (Lady Thompson), utilized this piano-duet accompaniment (and was, incidentally, sung in English).

I can only find this so it looks as if 1871 is the correct answer

furndire

Thursdays answer Piano?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms

"Johann Jakob gave his son his first musical training. He studied piano from the age of seven with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel. Brahms showed early promise (his younger brother Fritz also became a pianist) and helped to supplement the rather meager family income by playing the piano in restaurants and theaters, as well as by teaching"

NOSONDDU

Agree - many thanks, forgot all about it today

NOSONDDU

Friday - can only find that it's a grand piano from the composer's era

furndire

Well you've done better than me, I can't find anything. Do you think they mean this particular recording, rather than originally?
Anyway, I'm putting Grand, spent too much time looking.

Its weekly this as well by the look of it.

steveeeee

NOSONDDU wrote: »

Friday - can only find that it's a grand piano from the composer's era

From http://www.allegro-music.com/classical.asp and http://www.the-sixteen.org.uk/recordings/coro_50.php

It is thus appropriate that the piano used on this recording is a Bösendorfer of 1872.

Bösendorfer is the name of the piano's manufacturer, not the name of the specific instrument, but it's the closest I can find.