Although technically a mass for the dead, Johannes Brahms’s A German Requiem does not mention death
until the penultimate movement, and even then addresses the living with a sense
of reassured faith rather than anxiety.
Podcasts from the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas.
Monday, January 12, 2015
Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3
Bach's
Orchestral Suite No. 3 contains some of his best-known music, including the
beautiful "Air on the G String." But it also contains the origins of
the modern symphony orchestra.
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