Est 1923

BRAHMS The Songs, Vol 3

Pianist Johnson’s Brahms song project continues

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Johannes Brahms

Genre:

Vocal

Label: Hyperion

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 60

Mastering:

Stereo
DDD

Catalogue Number: CDJ33123

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Erlaube mir, fein's Mädchen Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Wach' auf mein' Herzensschöne Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Wo gehst du hun, du Stolze? Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Es steht ein' Lind' Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(8) Lieder und Romanzen, Movement: Ein Sonett (attrib. Count Thibault) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(8) Lieder und Romanzen, Movement: Ständchen Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Der Kuss (wds. Hölty) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 5, An eine Aolsharfe (wds. Mörike) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Magyarisch (wds. Daumer) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Die Schale der Vergessenheit (wds. Hölty) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Am Sonntag Morgen (wds. anon) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, An ein Veilchen (wds. Hölty) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Sehnsucht (wds. anon) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Wiegenlied (wds. Scherer) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 5, Abenddämmerung (wds. Schack) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(8) Lieder, Movement: No. 7, Mein wundes Herz (wds. Groth) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Im Garten am Seegestade (wds. Lemcke) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Lerchengesang (wds. Candidus) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Serenade (wds. Goethe) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, An den Mond (wds. Simrock) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 6, In Waldenseinsamkeit (wds. Lemcke) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(6) Lieder, Movement: Auf dem Schiffe (wds. Reinhold) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Es hing der Reif (wds. Groth) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 5, Ein Wanderer (wds. Reinhold) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Graham Johnson, Piano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Simon Bode, Tenor
Following the pattern of earlier volumes in his complete Brahms Lied edition, Graham Johnson has again mapped a more-or-less chronological journey through the composer’s career that juxtaposes the familiar (including the world’s best-loved cradle song) with rarities like ‘Die Schale der Vergessenheit’ and ‘Sehnsucht’, both quintessentially Brahmsian in their mingled passion and resignation. Inevitably in an all-Brahms recital, moods of reflectiveness, longing and regret for lost love or childhood innocence predominate. But Johnson is careful to leaven the mix, not least in some of the folksong settings that frame the recital. There are even moments of Brahmsian playfulness, on the face of it an oxymoron: say, in ‘Ständchen’, a teasing Ländler serenade, or the ebullient avian trifle ‘Auf dem Schiffe’.

Little known in Britain, 26-year-old tenor Simon Bode has been winning plaudits in Mozart and as a Lieder recitalist in his native Germany, with good reason. His tone is sweet and gently rounded, his diction crystal-clear, his phrasing always thoughtful. Spinning a rapt, sustained line, he movingly catches the Brahmsian twilit melancholy of ‘Abenddämmerung’ and ‘In Waldeseinsamkeit’, abetted by Johnson’s ever-sensitive response to harmonic flux. The haunting and little-known ‘Lerchensgesang’ brings one of the loveliest performances, Bode floating ethereally above Johnson’s diaphanous accompaniment. ‘Wiegenlied’, too, is as dulcet as you could wish, with singer and pianist vindicating a provocatively slumbrous tempo.

Occasionally, as in ‘Sehnsucht’ or ‘Am Sonntag Morgen’, Bode’s high notes can acquire a raw, reedy edge that, oddly, called to mind Peter Pears. Perhaps inevitably, too, with such a young singer, not every song seems to engage his full imagination: ‘An eine Äolsharfe’, for instance, is pleasantly sung but lacks an aching intensity of legato and a specific response to its sweet-sorrowful moods. But there is far more to enjoy than to cavil at here, not least in Bode’s spontaneous freshness in the folksong settings, culminating in the tender, touching simplicity of ‘Es steht ein Lind’. I hardly need add that Johnson’s booklet-notes are as discerning and illuminating as his playing.

BRAHMS The Songs, Vol 3

(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Erlaube mir, fein's Mädchen

(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr

(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Wach' auf mein' Herzensschöne

(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Wo gehst du hun, du Stolze?

(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund

(49) Deutsche Volkslieder, Movement: Es steht ein' Lind'

(8) Lieder und Romanzen, Movement: Ein Sonett (attrib. Count Thibault)

(8) Lieder und Romanzen, Movement: Ständchen

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Der Kuss (wds. Hölty)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 5, An eine Aolsharfe (wds. Mörike)

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Magyarisch (wds. Daumer)

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Die Schale der Vergessenheit (wds. Hölty)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Am Sonntag Morgen (wds. anon)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, An ein Veilchen (wds. Hölty)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Sehnsucht (wds. anon)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Wiegenlied (wds. Scherer)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 5, Abenddämmerung (wds. Schack)

(8) Lieder, Movement: No. 7, Mein wundes Herz (wds. Groth)

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Im Garten am Seegestade (wds. Lemcke)

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Lerchengesang (wds. Candidus)

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Serenade (wds. Goethe)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, An den Mond (wds. Simrock)

(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 6, In Waldenseinsamkeit (wds. Lemcke)

(6) Lieder, Movement: Auf dem Schiffe (wds. Reinhold)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Es hing der Reif (wds. Groth)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 5, Ein Wanderer (wds. Reinhold)

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