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Kurt Weill

Das Berliner Requiem

Vocal

The Berlin Requiem (German: Das Berliner Requiem) is a 1928 cantata for tenor, baritone, and choir of three male voices and orchestra by Kurt Weill to poems by Bertolt Brecht. The work had been commissioned by the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft who intended to broadcast the work on all its stations. However Brecht failed to abide by his contractual obligation to show the poems to the commissioning body for advance approval and the content, some of it a memorial to Rosa Luxemburg, led to several stations banning the performance.

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Movements

  1. Grabschrift 1919: Die rote Rosa
  2. Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen
  3. Großer Dankchoral "Lobet die Nacht ..." (Chor)
  4. Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen (Chor)
  5. Marterl "Hier ruht die Jungfrau Johanna Beck" (Chor, Tenor)
  6. Erster Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten "Wir kamen von den Gebirgen" (Chor, Tenor)
  7. Zweiter Bericht über den unbekannten Soldaten "Alles, was ich euch sagte" (Chor, Bariton)
  8. Großer Dankchoral (da capo) (Chor a capella)

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