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Release Date: Friday 1 December 2023
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Brahms' early songs express an exuberance that may surprise those who are unfamiliar with this element of his music making. The Op. 6 set includes a Mediterranean-flavoured song in bolero rhythm and songs of hope and joy, displaying an apparent simplicity that was hard-won and the product of constant refinement. Based on folk songs, the Op. 14 collection is astonishingly varied, ranging from folk melodies to medieval harmonies and Baroque-styled richness. Elsewhere Brahms charts more melodious, elegiac settings in the Op. 19 set and confronts melancholy and loss in Op. 48.
1-6 Sechs Gesänge, Op. 6 (1852-53) 15:30
7-14 Acht Lieder und Romanzen, Op. 14 (1858) 16:56
15-19 Fünf Gedichte, Op. 19 (1858-59) 9:31
20-26 Sieben Lieder, Op. 48 (1853-68) 15:49