Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber - Johannes Brahms: Lieder (2025)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 67:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19802897352 | Recorded: 2024
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 67:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19802897352 | Recorded: 2024
For their latest album, recorded live at the Reitstadel in Neumarkt, Christian Gerhaher and his long-time duo-partner, Gerold Huber, have revisited the songs of the great Romantic composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Yet it is not their first time: on their debut album in 2002 you´ll already find the ‘Four Serious Songs’ Op. 121, and in 2017 they released their version of ‘Romances from L. Tieck´s Magelone’, Op. 33. However, with this album, they bring single songs and cycles to the fore that testify to an intense striving by Brahms to create a new ‘folk tune’. Embedded into social changes of the 19th century, Brahms here tries to establish the art song as a reflection of its own imagined history as well as a reminiscence and portrayal of a naturalness gradually becoming lost during the rise of the modern world – similar to the ambivalence between tradition and progress, noticeable in his instrumental works.