Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer (BRAHMS JOHANNES)

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. '… and so gladly would I have given you a hundred-thousand kisses!”- Georg Friedrich Daumer A circle of friends as a vocal quartet alternating with solo voices and two good pianists - Brahms wrote his 'Liebeslieder Walzer” not for the grand concert hall but as chamber music for use at home. His first collection op. 52 was so successful that in 1874 he wrote a new set on poems by Daumer and Goethe entitled 'Neue Liebeslieder”. In 2010 the Swiss bank UBS placed the autograph of the Neue Liebeslieder on permanent loan to the music room of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. For this occasion the library, together with the Brahms Institute of Lübeck University of Music and the musicology department of Zurich University, organised a symposium on the 'Liebeslieder Walzer” and their context. Brahms' lavishly reproduced manuscript appears in its own hand-stitched volume accompanied by the papers featured at the authoritative symposium in a separate booklet. All of this is presented in a handsome cloth-bound box along with an audio CD, allowing the work to be experienced both visually and aurally./ Répertoire / Fac-similé

New Lovesong Walzes (A Suite)-Here are four selections from Brahms' impeccable Liebeslieder Walzer rearranged for piano two-hands from the original four-hands accompaniment. With texts from poems reflecting on love they form a fine set for choruses atthe high school level and up. A fantastic introduction to music of the Romantic era! In German with English translation selections include: Verzicht O Herz auf Rettung; Finstere Schatten der Nacht; Vom Gebirge Well' aufWell'; Weiche Graser im Revier. Total duration: ca. 5:15.