Review of Brahms Requiem
San Diego Master Chorale Presents the Brahms Requiem at Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church
All of the musical settings of the Catholic Church’s Requiem service used the same Latin liturgical format until Johannes Brahms decided to write his Requiem in 1868. Brahms created his own Requiem text, selecting passages from Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible, and instead of the terrors of the Last Judgement—the centerpiece of the Latin Requiem—Brahms chose texts that celebrated the joy of heaven in the Divine Presence.