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Schumann: Stille Liebe

Samuel Hasselhorn

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released May 15, 2020 | harmonia mundi

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Nearly every setting of the poems by Kerner, Chamisso, Andersen and Heine heard in this recital dates from 1840, the year Schumann found himself totally engrossed with the song genre, producing no fewer than 138 individual lieder. This creative vein seems to mirror the inner torments that gripped the young composer at the time, while revealing the extraordinary range of his musical invention and unequalled talent of storyteller, as Samuel Hasselhorn demonstrates here, after winning first prize at the 2018 Queen Elisabeth Competition: the young German baritone’s first recording for harmonia mundi is a veritable love letter to this most intimate of art forms. © harmonia mundi
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Kathleen Ferrier (Vol. 10) : Brahms - Mahler

Kathleen Ferrier

Classical - Released January 1, 1992 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Encounter

Igor Levit

Classical - Released September 11, 2020 | Sony Classical

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The latest album ‘Encounter’ by the German-Russian pianist is a particularly astonishing one, blending the diverse works of great composers such as Bach, Brahms and Morton Feldman. While the 2020 health crisis, due to the covid19 virus, has caused great anxiety among the general population it has also ignited the imagination of artists and musicians alike. Locked down in his apartment like so many us, the pianist Igor Levitt broadcasted a daily, live performance on his social media, even going as far as playing a 20 hour piece, Vexations by Erik Satie. ‘Encounter’, the product of Levitt’s self-isolation during lockdown, brings together an intelligent and pleasing array of composers. From Bach arranged by Busoni at the Palais de Mari, or the latest work from Morton Feldman for solo piano, to Brahms arranged by Reger, these are intimate connections between composers, as much as they are moments of solidarity at a time or great loneliness and isolation. Levitt’s poignant introspection and devotion to humanity shines throughout his album. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 by Otto Klemperer

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released February 10, 2022 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Mendelssohn: Elijah, Op. 70, MWV A 25

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Classical - Released September 15, 2023 | Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings

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The labels lately established by performing organizations have mostly been devoted to new releases, but there is a lot to be said for using them to resurrect historical performances and recordings. These tend to be ones that have hung in people's memories for years, well after newer recordings have become available. There couldn't be a better example than this, the first historical release from the Bayerische Staatsoper Recordings label. It reproduces a 1984 live performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah, Op. 70 (as Elias, in the original German) from the Nationaltheater München, with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Chor des städtischen Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf. (The latter got involved because the Bayerischer Staatsopernchor was unavailable, but the choir acquits itself very well, unsurprisingly inasmuch as Mendelssohn himself was one of its former directors.) Sawallisch was noted for his way with Mendelssohn, to which he brought a noble Germanic tinge that makes a nice contrast with the usual English performances. He never did better than here, and upon hearing that tapes of this performance had been preserved, he is said to have exclaimed, "Thank God they're safe!" The soloists, led by baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the title role and tenor Peter Schreier as Obadiah, are superb. Another attraction is the hardbound booklet, delving deep into Mendelssohn's philosophical place in German society (really philosophical -- Hegel and his dialectic come into it). The live sound from 1984 is impressive indeed, with crowd noise kept to an absolute minimum in a superb display of discipline. A wonderful historical reissue that catches the intense drama in Mendelssohn's oratorio.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Licht in der Nacht

Coline Dutilleul

Classical - Released October 21, 2022 | Fuga Libera

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"What could be more fascinating than the play of light and shadow? To descend into sensual melancholy, to dare to be fragile and to reveal oneself in its depths and inner nuances. I find that one way of illustrating this complexity of the senses is to compare two musical and pictorial schools: French Impressionism and German Expressionism. The colours and timbres employed by these two schools have long fascinated me just as much as the extreme refinement and detail of the paintings and compositions themselves. Each painter and composer explored the depths of the human soul in his or her own manner. This programme of works composed between 1899-1914 that laid the foundations for modern music is intended as a bridge between Expressionism and Impressionism. This parallel does not claim to illustrate their differences but rather to highlight their common points, to reveal the voluptuous and almost decadent sensuality of these two currents as well as their geographical and stylistic contrasts" (Coline Dutilleul) © Fuga Libera
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Brahms: La belle Maguelone

Stéphane Degout

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | B Records

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Brahms: Complete Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 & 65, Hungarian Dances

Rias Kammerchor

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released November 4, 2022 | harmonia mundi

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In these love songs in waltz style for chorus or solo voices accompanied by piano four hands, Brahms freely indulged his taste for Viennese folk music. The RIAS-Kammerchor instils a wonderful inner life in these musical landscapes, sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy, punctuated here by a selection from the Hungarian Dances – also eminently popular in their inspiration. © harmonia mundi
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Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge

Christoph Eschenbach

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released May 13, 2016 | harmonia mundi

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Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht - Brahms: Nänie - Schumann: Der Königssohn

Simone Schroder

Classical - Released January 24, 2011 | Farao Classics

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Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24 & Kernerlieder, Op. 35

Leif Ove Andsnes

Classical - Released April 19, 2019 | harmonia mundi

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Justinus Kerner, a poet and a practicing physician fascinated with occultism, somnambulism and magnetism, inspired young Schumann who, at just seventeen, set to music the singular poet’s verses. He would eventually come back to it in 1840 with a strange cycle, “a masterpiece of dereliction” (according to Brigitte François-Sappey) he wrote as an exorcism for his mental illness: through a suite of twelve poems (Zwölf Gedichte Op. 35, better known as “Kerner Lieder”), Schumann projects his own destiny, questioning himself, trying to understand why sadness overwhelms his soul even though he’s in-love and newlywed.This pain produced a series of masterpieces that are still admired for their musical and philosophical reach. Liederkreis Op. 24 also dates back to 1840, a surprisingly prolific year for Schumann who composed like a mad man; his first cycle of lieder based on poems by Heinrich Heine about love and its inevitable consequences: expectations, hope, disillusionment and farewells.The result of many years of collaboration between Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes, this album, recorded in Berlin in 2018, will undoubtedly be a landmark in Schumannian interpretation. The German baritone’s voice has grown deeper with age, giving a unique intensity rich with doubt and desolation, an impression reinforced by the strength and intensity of the Norwegian pianist’s performance. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Brahms Orchestral & Vocal Works

Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid

Classical - Released October 20, 2023 | IBS Classical

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Selige Stunde

Jonas Kaufmann

Classical - Released September 4, 2020 | Sony Classical

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Although Covid-19 has forced many musicians to cancel their concerts and recordings in 2020, it has also sparked creativity and allowed people to enjoy calmer moments – something that’s rare when you have a busy career. Jonas Kaufmann did not waste his time during lockdown, recording several Lieder albums with his accomplice, the pianist Helmut Deutsch.“Selige Stunde” (“Blessed Hours!”) is the first fruit of his quarantine which brings together a selection of Lieder from Mozart to Mahler, including Schubert, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Strauss, Brahms, Wolf, Schumann and extremely rare gems such as Ännchen von Tharau by Friedrich Silcher or the unusual In mir klingt ein Lied composed by Alois Melichar on the Etude, Op. 10 No. 3 by Chopin.Time and intensive use have gradually tarnished Jonas Kaufmann's voice and his timbre has darkened without compromising any of its expression or exceptional range. With quarantine making it impossible to use a recording studio, the two friends recorded this album in a private home with as few people as possible. It’s a “blessing in disguise” for Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deustch, who were able to find the tone of a private concert in the intimacy of a living room for this recording. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Lieder (Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann...)

Fritz Wunderlich

Lieder (German) - Released September 14, 2018 | SWR Classic

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Ein Menschliches Requiem

Johannes Brahms

Classical - Released February 11, 2022 | Evil Penguin Classic

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Bent over his writing desk, full of sorrow over his loss, Brahms wanted to write music that would nevertheless offer some support: hope for those near him, comfort for the living – and not with a sombre funeral march. Initially, he gave his composition the title "Ein menschliches Requiem" (A Human Requiem). The monumental composition for orchestra and choir that would become Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) lies far from that intimate beginning. But Brahms did not forget his initial plan: he even transcribed a version for piano 4-hands, soloists and choir: transparent, intimate, colourful and, most importantly, very personal. In search of the man who was Brahms, Vlaams Radiokoor weaves some childhood memories of his good friend Schumann in between the movements of the Requiem. In his Kinderszenen, Schumann in turn combined various short works that were close to his heart and through which he thought back, filled with nostalgia, to his own childhood. © Evil Penguin Classic Records
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Brahms, J.: Symphony No. 3 / Gesang Der Parzen / Nanie

John Eliot Gardiner

Classical - Released September 22, 2009 | SDG

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Heimat (Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Reger, Grieg, Britten...)

Benjamin Appl

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released March 10, 2017 | Sony Music Classical Local

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Schubert: Schwanengesang D. 957 / Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121

Thomas Quasthoff

Classical - Released January 1, 2001 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Lieder von Schubert, Brahms, Schumann

Vesselina Kasarova

Classical - Released April 5, 1999 | RCA Red Seal