Brahms: Complete Songs Vol.1
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Songs Vol.1
Christoph Prégardien (Tenor) Ulrich Eisenlohr (Piano)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 3 December 2021
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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 littleknown jewels such as Versunken.
"Few lieder singers today combine such honest directness and subtle understanding as Christoph Prégardien, whose career now stretches back some 40 years...Eisenlohr is a sympathetic and observant partner, rhythmically firm yet supple." Gramophone
"Though he is now in his mid 60s, and his voice has inevitably lost some of its former bloom and flexibility with age, 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." The Guardian Five Stars
Tracks:
4 Gesänge, Op. 43
6 Lieder, Op. 86
5 Lieder, Op. 105
9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32
