Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 1 Classical Vocal & Song Naxos

Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 1

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Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 1

Label Catalogue Number:
8.574268

Running Time: 01:03:15

Release Date: December 2021
Originally recorded in December 2021

Genre:
Classical
Vocal & Song

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This first volume of Brahms’ complete songs spans a period of nearly 25 years. A prolific composer of Lieder, Brahms’ adherence to traditional form was accompanied by a modern approach to compositional style. Thematically, most songs explore ideas of love, loneliness and solitude, perfectly exemplified by the Vier Gesänge, Op.43. In a similar way the Sechs Lieder, Op.86 share a common theme of a farewell to life. This volume contains some of his greatest songs, including Die Mainacht, as well as little-known jewels such as Versunken

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“… Some very fine performances of overlooked works …”

Mark S. Zimmer – MusicWeb-International.com – 10 August 2022

Coup de cœur

Olivier Brunel – Classica magazine (France) – June 2022

“… Few lieder singers today combine such honest directness and subtle understanding as Christoph Prégardien … His clarity of diction and relative weighting o words are a model for any singer… Most moving of all is the trancelike stillness of ‘Feldeinsamkeit’, perfectly sustained in long, arching spans; a performance close to mu ideal, this. Here and elsewhere Eisenlohr is a sympathetic and observant partner, rhythmically firm yet supple, with a natural feeling for Brahmsian rubato…”

Richard Wigmore – Gramophone magazine – March 2022

“… this Brahms disc, recorded in 2020, confirms that the sheer intelligence of Prégardien’s performances, his immaculate diction and the perfect weight and colour he gives to each phrase, still conjure revelatory interpretations from everything he sings… However lowly or mundane the words, though, Prégardien treats them with the respect he would give to a poem by Heine or Goethe, just as Brahms extracts every morsel of meaning in his settings… outstanding performances of all 24 songs, each the product of Prégardien’s craft and his lifetime’s experience in this repertoire.” *****

Andrew Clements – The Guardian – 13 January 2022

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