Brahms Songbook Vol. 2

Connolly, Sarah;
Muller-Brachmann, Hanno;
Martineau, Malcolm

CKD 749

Pianist Malcolm Martineau is the brilliant initiator of this new one-of-a-kind series on Linn. The Brahms Songbook has set the unprecedented goal to record Brahms’s lieder by complete opus number. In this second instalment, Malcolm is joined by star mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and bass-baritone Hanno Müller-Brachmann in five sets that were composed and published over a period of thirty years: Op. 72, Op. 105, Op. 43, Op. 48 and Op. 57. In a time when the middle-class was growing, song-writing was both lucrative and pleasurable, offering a myriad of ways to explore perennially popular topics like unrequited love. Yet, in the lieder recorded here Brahms immerses us in a heightened emotional world, distant from the drawing rooms and concert halls of the bourgeoisie.

Works:

•Brahms: Gesänge (5), Op. 72
• Brahms: Lieder (5), Op. 105
• Brahms: Lieder (7), Op. 48
• Brahms: Lieder und Gesänge (8), Op. 57

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Linn

02-09-2024

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