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Brahms: Lieder. (Choral And Song).(Review)
[] "COMPLETE EDITION, VOL. 4" Funf Lieder op. 47, Sieben Lieder op. 48, Funf Lieder op. 4, Lieder und Gesange op. 57. With Banse; A. Schmidt; Deutsch (piano). Texts and translations. CPO 999 444-2 (Naxos, dist.)
Music-lovers in Brahms's day were most likely to know him from his songs. Today, while his orchestral and chamber music is ubiquitous, only about two dozen or so of Brahms's lieder are performed with any regularity. The CPO project provides a rare chance to survey his entire published song output, start to finish. There are 196 songs extant; the relentlessly self-critical Brahms discarded hundreds more.
The present volume, the fourth in CPO's survey, includes some familiar pieces ("Botschaft," "Sonntag," "Der Gang zum Liebchen," as well as Brahms's single most famous composition, the "Wiegenlied") with quite a few that deserve to be performed more often. Andreas Schmidt has the lion's share of the assignments here, applying creamy sound, a wide palette of tone color and assured technique to the task; song after song could serve as an object lesson in Germanic bel canto. Schmidt studied with Dietrich FischerDieskau, and at times he sounds amazingly like his famous predecessor, even down to the characteristic mannerisms. But for all the ...
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