Brahms - Quartets for Four Voices and Piano | Haenssler Profil PH06021

Brahms - Quartets for Four Voices and Piano

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Label: Haenssler Profil

Cat No: PH06021

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 1st October 2007

Contents

Artists

Kammerchor Stuttgart
Andreas Rothkopf (piano)

Conductor

Frieder Bernius

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Quartets (3), op.31
Quartets (3), op.64
Quartets (4), op.92
Quartets (6), op.112

Artists

Kammerchor Stuttgart
Andreas Rothkopf (piano)

Conductor

Frieder Bernius

About

Johannes Brahms is one of the only composers of the late nineteenth century who appreciated the four-part lieder with piano as a serious musical genre. He wrote a good number of masterpieces for this combination, including those included on this exciting new CD.

Brahms’s approach to ensemble lieder is a great deal more sophisticated that that of his predecessors; he was involved with the genre from 1859 to 1891, almost as long as he was involved with solo lieder. Brahms considerably raised the demands made on performers. Instead of representing middle-class domestic music, the lieder are now realizable only by well prepared and trained singers after intensive rehearsal.

Stuttgart-born, Frieder Bernius is one of Germany's most versatile conductors. He is interested in breaking through long-established interpretational traditions and concentrating on the original performance styles. In this endeavour, Bernius primarily works with the ensembles he himself founded: the Stuttgart Chamber Choir, the Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra and the Stuttgart Classical Philharmonic.

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