Brahms: Geistliches Lied | Echo Ensemble & Epiphoni Consort

Epiphoni Consort and Echo Ensemble join forces for Johannes Brahms' Geistliches Lied (text & translation included below), arranged for strings, organ and choir by Mark Gotham and recorded live in concert on Remembrance Day 2021.

Painting and digital animation by Noah Max
'Jerusalem', December 2020; oil, acrylic and mixed media on canvas (unframed)

Echo Ensemble
Conductor & Creative Director: Noah Max

Violin I: Maja Horvat
Violin II: Chloë Meade
Viola: Ana Dunne-Sequi
Cello: Rowena Taylor
Double Bass: Eleanor Grant
Organ: Richard Gowers

Epiphoni Consort
Artistic Director: Tim Reader

Sopranos: Milly Pelmore, Sapphire Armitage, Helen Price, Alice Young, Emily Benson, Annie Hamilton, Becky Ryland-Jones
Altos: Abaigh Wheatley, Sarah Shipton, Charly Oakley, Rosie Breckon, Emma Kjellin, Jess Haig, Laura Bevan
Tenor: Chris Pelmore, Alister Whitford, Mark Williams, Greg Windle, Andrew Milner-White, Matthew Oddy
Basses: Nick Daly, Rich Pelmore, Nico Ferrinho, Amatey Doku, Graham Kirk, Adam Jones, Luke Wilson

German text by Paul Fleming:

Laß dich nur nichts nicht dauern
Mit Trauern,
Sei stille!
Wie Gott es fügt,
So sei vergnügt
Mein Wille.

Was willst du heute sorgen
Auf morgen?
Der Eine
steht allem für;
Der gibt auch dir
das Deine.

Sei nur in allem Handel
Ohn Wandel,
Steh feste!
Was Gott beschleußt,
Das ist und heißt
das Beste.
Amen.

English translation (anon.):

Let nought afflict thee with grief;
Be calm, as God ordains,
And so may my will be contented.

Why take thought for the morrow?
The one God who gives thee
What is thine watches over all.

All in thy doings be steadfast
And true. What God decrees
Is best, and this it is acknowledged.