Rachel Harnisch; Marina Viotti; Yannick Debus; Jan Schultsz
Format Details:
Release Date: 16 October 2020
Label: Pan Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 7619990104198
Description
Johannes Brahms wrote well over 300 lieder, including his arrangements of German folk songs, partsongs and choral lieder. Considering how long he carried a song around in his head before writing and publishing the final version, this is an astonishing amount.
This 2-CD-set presents a selection from Brahms’ huge lied repertoire, which not only gives an impression of his importance to music history up to the present day and what a perfect lied composer he was, but also reveals what a cheerful, young-at-heart and humorous person he must have been.
The selection of songs and duets is arranged chronologically (1853-1896) and includes all phases of his life in which the lied played a central role, thus allowing the development of the German-language song in the time after Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann to be clearly traced.
The pianist Jan Schultsz plays on a wonderful original J.B. Streicher fortepiano from 1871, a model on which Brahms also preferred to play. The singers are Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Marina Viotti (mezzo-soprano) and Yannick Debus (baritone) - young singers who have already celebrated successes in concert and in major opera houses.
Tracklisting
Thomas Sanderling, Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
Soloists; Eroica Berlin; Jakob Lehmann
Leonor de Lera; Nacho Laguna; Pablo FitzGerald
Iskrena Yordanova; Zefira Valova
Lawrence Zazzo; Tercia Realidad; Jorge Jimenez;
Il Segreto delle Muse; Gabriel Garrido
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
Arte Minima; Pedro Sousa Silva
