Stephan Genz, Roger Vignoles - Johannes Brahms: Deutsche Volkslieder (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 59:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | 3984-23700-2 | Recorded: 1998
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 59:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | 3984-23700-2 | Recorded: 1998
The appearance in 1856 of a new edition of a German folksong anthology considered by Brahms to be indiscriminately compiled provoked him to bring out a collection of his own in 1894. His priorities lay not with authenticity; his own selections were governed by the sheer musical and aesthetic quality of the raw material and the opportunities it afforded for imaginative arrangement. So, in his Deutsche Volkslieder, Brahms practised the fine art of assimilation, blurring the lines between folksong and artsong in a way not at all dissimilar to what Britten would be doing for English folksong little more than 50 years later. Images and ambient sounds from the original folksongs find their way into Brahms’s ever-inventive piano accompaniments.