Peter Kofler, Chorwerk Ruhr & Florian Helgath - Als ob mich Engel riefen. Choral Music by Johannes Brahms (2023)
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Classical, Choral | Label: Coviello Classics
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 248 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:03
Classical, Choral | Label: Coviello Classics
The genre accompanied him for almost his entire creative career: the sacred choral song op. 30 was written by the 23-year-old Johannes Brahms in 1856, the Fünf Gesänge for mixed choir a cappella are his late legacy in the field of secular choral song, composed between 1886 and 1888. In between lie the Drei Gesänge, composed at a time when Brahms was also very practically involved with choral singing as a choirmaster, then the Sieben Lieder for four to eight-part choir and finally his large-scale Mottete op. 74, No. 1 Warum ist das Licht gegeben from 1877 and the sister work O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf op. 74 No. 2. Over the course of more than 30 years, the composer showed a fascinating development which – of course always in the most demanding style – led from the romantic opulence of the six- to eight-part movement to more reduced austerity. Chorwerk Ruhr traces this development with fascinating intensity.