Format : Sheet music
Johannes Brahms's Complete Songs - Volume 1 comes packed with 51 songs from the famous composers impressive repertoire. Includes the works Alte Liebe Op. 72 No. 1 Am Sonntag Morgen Op. 49 No. 1 An den Mond Op. 71
SKU: BR.CHB-5143-02
ISBN 9790004410684. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.
I think they are very easy to play and delightful too, wrote Johannes Brahms in August 1860 to Breitkopf & Hartel to heighten the songs' appeal to the publisher. He had already sent his Four Songs Accompanied by Two Horns and Harp to his Hamburger Frauenchor. He chose prominent texts by Shakespeare, Ossian, Eichendorff and others, and soon turned to his trusted friend Clara Schumann, whose transcription of three of the four Songs is the principal source of the work today. The publishers Brahms had contacted did not entirely share the composer's vision of horns and harp as a particularly fitting and attractive instrumental accompaniment, and felt there could be problems here. Nonetheless, their reservations could not hinder the lasting success of the Four Songs.
SKU: BR.CHB-5321-02
ISBN 9790004412497. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.
The musicologist Helmut Lauterwasser, staff member of the Repertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) in the work group located at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, recently discovered two choral pieces for men's voices by the young Johannes Brahms: Des Postillons Morgenlied (text by Wilhelm Muller) and Goldne Bruecken (text by Emanuel Geibel).Brahms presumably wrote Des Postillons Morgenlied as early as 1847 at the age of 14. The piece is thus the earliest of all of Brahms' transmitted works. Goldne Bruecken was perhaps written for a concert given in Celle in early May 1853. Brahms dedicated the two works to the men's choral society of that town. When he later tried to collect the non-published early works in order to destroy them, he apparently forgot the Celle pieces. The previously unknown copies had been preserved in the estate of the Alte Celler Liedertafel. Their authenticity has since been confirmed by the Brahms Complete Edition in Kiel. The Chorus of the Bayerischer Rundfunk gave the first performance and the world- premiere broadcast of the pieces in its BR-KLASSIK program on 5 March 2010.
SKU: BR.CHB-16003
ISBN 9790004413302. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.
The well-known Liebeslieder op. 52, originally for piano four hands and voices ad libitum, appear here for the first time as a modern Urtext edition in a hitherto little-known form for voices and piano for two hands. Brahms made this arrangement himself in November 1874 after the conductor Hermann Levi, who had initially been commissioned, had rejected it. Brahms had previously immersed himself in the pieces again for the four-hand version without voice op. 52A, so that he was now able to create the new arrangement in a few days. Here, Brahms explicitly intended the voices no longer as ad libitum, since the vocal parts are not completely incorporated in the piano part any more. In the spring of 1875, this version was published by Simrock, but it could not prevail against the popular original version and was presumably mainly performed in a domestic setting. The present edition would like to invite musicians to rediscover, practically test and perform a still little-known form of the Liebeslieder op. 52. The musical text follows the new Brahms Complete Edition, on which the informative preface is also based.
SKU: BR.CHB-5219-02
ISBN 9790004411407. 9 x 12 inches. German.
The Three Songs Op. 42 are actually a cappella choral works, the piano part being intended above all as a study aid. Ulrich Mahlert's preface provides information on the origin of the pieces and their historical and socio-cultural background.
SKU: BR.CHB-3474-02
ISBN 9790004404201. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.
SKU: BR.CHB-3646-02
ISBN 9790004405482. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
