Brahms's
German Requiem
THE RUGBY PHILHARMONIC
CHOIR
THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
ORCHESTRA
Leader, ALFRED CAVE
Conducted by KENNETH A. STUBBS
ROSALIND ROWSELL (soprano)
CECIL COPE (baritone)
Relayed from the Temple Speech Room, Rugby School
The text of Brahms's German Requiem does not follow traditional procedure, but is freely selected from the Bible and the Apocrypha. Summing up this great work in his preface to Novello's edition of the voca! score, Ernest Newman rightly says that the more we study works such as the German Requiem the more they give ' voice to all our own profoundest thoughts upon life and death. And the appeal of such works cannot diminish until humanity itself alters ; philosophy of this kind endures like the noble metals and the hills '.