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Nocturnes

Rupert Charlesworth

Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Zig-Zag Territoires

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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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Father & Son (Schubert, Brahms, Schumann...)

Christoph Prégardien

Lieder (German) - Released November 21, 2014 | Challenge Classics

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Lieder von Schubert, Brahms, Schumann

Vesselina Kasarova

Classical - Released April 5, 1999 | RCA Red Seal

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Mendelssohn: Choral Works

MDR Leipzig Radio Choir

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released July 7, 2023 | PentaTone

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Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121

Marie-Claude Chappuis

Classical - Released May 26, 2023 | Prospero Classical

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Spatial Audio - The 3D Orchestral Collection

Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg

Classical - Released October 15, 2021 | Warner Classics

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Brahms: Symphony No.1; Gesang der Parzen

Rundfunkchor Berlin

Classical - Released January 1, 1991 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs

Benjamin Appl

Classical - Released November 4, 2022 | PentaTone

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Newly discovered orchestral songs by an unsung hero. This is an album full of world-premiere recordings of orchestral songs by Hans Sommer, sung by an excellent quartet of soloists – Mojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter and Benjamin Appl – together with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the baton of Guillermo García Calvo. Sommer was a Liszt student whose operas were performed and praised by Richard Strauss, but sunk into relative oblivion due to his unusual career path and independence from major publishers. The songs were discovered recently and can finally be presented to the world. Focusing mostly on Goethe poetry, combining high Romanticism with folk styles, Sommer’s songs are colourfully orchestrated, harmonically audacious, and often highly dramatic and evocative. This album release, commemorating Sommer’s 100-year death anniversary, sheds light on a fascinating chapter in music history, and will hopefully contribute to a renaissance of this hero. © Pentatone
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Burnished Gold

Robyn Allegra Parton

Classical - Released June 23, 2023 | Orchid Classics

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The title of this release by soprano Robyn Allegra Parton refers not only to a general mood of circa-1900 Vienna but specifically to the frequent use of burnished gold-leaf in the paintings of Gustav Klimt, whose Vienna Secession movement in art had many affinities to what was happening in the musical world. Parton uses the gold as lipstick in the graphics; one may or may not go for this, but the package here is coherent and satisfying in several ways. Richard Strauss is present on the program, and Parton, writing her own notes, correctly points out that his influence loomed large on all the composers heard here. But in a way, the interest of Parton's program lies in the differences among the styles of the composers on the program. Parton puts the listener in the place of an audience member at a vocal recital of the time, hearing the Impressionist hints of Joseph Marx, the new simplicity of the young Erich Korngold, the decisive steps toward atonality in the Seven Early Songs of Berg (at the time Schoenberg's student), and the works of two female composers, the quite playful experimental Johanna Müller-Hermann and Alma Mahler-Schindler, both of whom were heard fairly frequently at the time but were later forgotten. Parton's voice is an absolutely distinctive soprano, with a bit of rough texture flashing unexpectedly into a brilliant top. Quite a few recordings lately have explored the rich repertory of Austrian vocal music of this period, but this one is especially well thought-out and executed; it appeared on classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2023. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht & Infelice

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Cantatas (sacred) - Released January 1, 1974 | Eterna

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Brahms, Schumann & Mahler: Lieder

Renée Fleming

Classical - Released June 14, 2019 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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A long break. In the fall of 2018, Renée Fleming sang for Broadway musicals under the BBC Concert Orchestra led by Rob Fisher including the likes of Jerome Kern, Richard Rogers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, and some lesser-known names. A little unexpected yet welcome, with this new work, the American soprano returns to a more traditional repertoire. To be precise, she puts forward a very beautiful selection of Brahms’ Lieder, the entirety of Schumann’s Fraueliebe und -Leben Op. 42, and finally Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder in an orchestral interpretation led by Christian Thielemann with the Münchner Philharmoniker. Today, Renée Fleming’s tone is perfectly crepuscular, autumnal and suitable for these Lieders filled with melancholy. Harmut Höll’s accompaniments are beautiful (especially in Brahms), and the direction of Thielemann is often poetic
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Best 20

Laurence Equilbey, Accentus

Classical - Released March 19, 2012 | naïve

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Lamento

Fretwork

Chamber Music - Released August 27, 2021 | Signum Records

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Counter-tenor Iestyn Davies and the viol consort Fretwork present a new recording of German works for viol consort and voice drawn from 17th-century, following their critically-praised 2019 album of works by Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell. Featuring performances from organist Silas Wollston and counter-tenor Hugh Cutting, the recital ranges widely over the 17th century – from the early years with three curiously similar sounding friends: Schein, Scheidt and Schütz, to the most significant member of the Bach family before Johann Sebastian, Johann Christoph Bach. From their they travel down North Sea to the foothills of the Alps, including Buxtehude’s predecessor at the Marienkirche in Lübeck – Franz Tunder (whose daughter Buxtehude was to marry) and another north German composer who worked in Copenhagen, Christian Geist. Giovanni Felice Sances is an outlier here: he was born in Rome, but spent the second part of his life working for three successive Emperors in Vienna, where viol playing was still very much in vogue. In 2021, Fretwork celebrates its 35th anniversary. In the past three and a half decades they have explored the core repertory of great English consort music, from Taverner to Purcell, and made classic recordings against which others are judged. In addition to this, Fretwork have become known as pioneers of contemporary music for viols, having commissioned over 40 new works. Iestyn Davies is a British countertenor widely recognised as one of the world’s finest singers celebrated for the beauty and technical dexterity of his voice and intelligent musicianship. © Signum Classics
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Musique classique pour la détente: calmer bébé

Filip Lundqvist

Classical - Released May 17, 2019 | Masterpieces Filip Lundqvist

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Brahms : Works for Choir & Orchestra

Jaime Martin

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released November 10, 2017 | Ondine

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The main attraction of this album is to present, in addition to a few already established recorded works such as Brahms’ Nänie, Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) and Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), the Liebeslieder Walzer in its orchestral version as imagined by the composer himself. Surprisingly while the versions for piano duet and vocal quartet have often been recorded, that is not the case for the nine waltzes selected by Brahms in 1870 for his orchestral rewriting; indeed they were only edited in the 1930s, most likely forgotten in favour of more marketable versions. Another relative rarity is the Begräbnisgesang (Burial Song) op. 13 for choir and wind, an instrumentation that made the work usable for outdoor celebrations. The excellent Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, funded in 1945 by the notorious choral conductor, accompanied by the Gävle Symphony Orchestra from Sweden perform these sumptuous pieces in a stunningly beautiful recording. © SM/Qobuz
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Schumann: Lied Edition

Peter Schreier

Classical - Released May 5, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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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