A German Requiem (Brahms) humanism persists through the work. Brahms purposely omitted Christian dogma. In his correspondence with Carl Reinthaler, when Reinthaler expressed concern over this, Brahms refused to add references to "the redeeming death of the Lord", as Reinthaler described it, such as . In the Bremen performance of the piece, Reinthaler took the liberty of inserting the aria "I know that my Redeemer liveth" from Handel's "Messiah" to satisfy the clergy. In addition to soprano and baritone soloists and mixed chorus, "A German Requiem" is scored for: Since Brahms inserted the fifth movement, the work shows symmetry around the fourth movement, which
The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream is an album by Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer Joe Zawinul, released in 1968. The title refers to the Third stream genre of music, melding classical and jazz. An example of strings playing in a jazz context in the 1960s was pianist Joe Zawinul's 1968 recording titled "The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream". Zawinul collaborated with avant-garde composer William S. Fischer on this recording. The music consists of a series of extended compositions that do not follow standard jazz forms such as