Konstantin Ingenpass, Esther Valentin-Fieguth, Alina Wunderlin, Kieran Carrel, Ulrich Eisenlohr – Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 2 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Konstantin Ingenpass, Esther Valentin-Fieguth, Alina Wunderlin, Kieran Carrel, Ulrich Eisenlohr – Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:26:27 minutes | 810 MB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms was opposed to the Lied cultivated by the “New German” circle of composers around Franz Liszt who developed it into a highly artificial art form. In the books of the 49 Deutsche Volkslieder Brahms discovered a repository of dialogue songs, narrative ballads, laments, and songs of disputation and love, some tragic, others comic, that appealed to his need for authenticity. The book from which he sourced the songs had a printed text and melody, so Brahms’ artistic contribution lay in his richly varied piano accompaniments which subtly comment, heighten, inflect or expand on the texts.

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