Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performer: Dame Sarah Connolly, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Malcolm Martineau
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD749
Release: 2024
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Fünf Gesänge, Op. 72
01. I. Alte Liebe
02. II. Sommerfäden
03. III. O kühler Wald
04. IV. Verzagen
05. V. Unüberwindlich
Fünf Lieder, Op. 105
06. I. Wie Melodien
07. II. Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
08. III. Klage
09. IV. Auf dem Kirchhofe
10. V. Verrat
Vier Gesänge, Op. 43
11. I. Von ewiger Liebe
12. II. Die Mainacht
13. III. Ich schell mein Horn ins Jammertal
Pianist Malcolm Martineau is the brilliant initiator of this new one-of-a-kind series on Linn. The Brahms Songbook has set the unprecedented goal to record Brahms’s lieder by complete opus number. In this second instalment, Malcolm is joined by star mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and bass-baritone Hanno Muller-Brachmann in five sets that were composed and published over a period of thirty years: Op. 72, Op. 105, Op. 43, Op. 48 and Op. 57. In a time when the middle-class was growing, song-writing was both lucrative and pleasurable, offering a myriad of ways to explore perennially popular topics like unrequited love. Yet, in the lieder recorded here Brahms immerses us in a heightened emotional world, distant from the drawing rooms and concert halls of the bourgeoisie.