Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge

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Goerne remains a fine lieder singer … he shows a careful attention to text … he finds a contemplative depth for the Four Serious Songs, however, with the sorrow and tenderness of the second... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016 More…

Release Date: 10th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: HMC902174
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 55 minutes

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17th June 2016
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Brahms: Lieder und Gesänge (9), Op. 32

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Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach

I. Wie rafft ich mich auf in der Nacht

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II. Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen

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III. Ich schleich umher betrübt und stumm

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IV. Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte

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V. Wehe, so willst du mich wieder

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VI. Du sprichst,daβ ich mich täuschte

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VII. Bitteres zu sagen denkst du

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VIII. So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide

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IX. Wie bist du, meine Königin

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Brahms: 6 Lieder, Op. 85: I. Sommerabend

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Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach

Brahms: 6 Lieder, Op. 85: II. Mondenschein

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Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach

Excerpt, Brahms: Lieder (4), Op. 96

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Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach

I. Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht

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III. Es schauen die Blumen

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IV. Meerfahrt

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Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121

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Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach

I. Denn es gehet dem Menschen wie dem Vieh

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II. Ich wandte mich und sahe

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III. O Tod, wie bitte bist du

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IV. Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen

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Recording of the Week, Vocal Music by Brahms

17th June 2016

Katherine listens to a double-bill of Brahms, featuring Matthias Goerne, Magdalena Kožená, Thomas Quasthoff and more.

Brahms wrote a vast number of lieder over a period of 40 years. The 200 or so he permitted to survive show just how important the genre was to his compositional process. The selection presented here illustrates the diversity of a corpus that features Heine (as with so many other composers), but also a wide variety of other poets whom he set to music with the same consummate skill as the ‘Four Serious Songs’ Op.121, the peak of his magnificent and highly individual output.

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September 2016

Goerne remains a fine lieder singer … he shows a careful attention to text … he finds a contemplative depth for the Four Serious Songs, however, with the sorrow and tenderness of the second beautifully suggested.

September 2016

It’s music that’s very well suited to his voice: grainy and gentle and with that characteristic burnished-mahogany tone...this is supremely seductive Lieder singing, with a natural intelligence and ease with the words, matched by playing from Christoph Eschenbach that coaxes and caresses the piano with loving delicacy.

September 2016

This is a grown-up disc of grown-up repertoire…it’s superbly done and it’s entirely worthy to stand alongside Goerne’s excellent Schubert recitals for the same label.

17th June 2016

No-one broods quite like Matthias Goerne, and if his new recital of Brahms songs makes for a decidedly sombre listening experience, it’s also an absolutely unmissable one...his oaky, sturdy voice has taken on darker and more dramatic hues of late...There’s a special sort of alchemy in his partnership with Eschenbach, too, to the extent that it often feels as if we’re listening to a single performer.

30th June 2016

The finest-grained colours come from the piano: Eschenbach knows when to push and when to linger, and he has a lovely knack of catching Goerne at the crest of a phrase and then adding his own quiet commentary.

Record Review 11th June 2016

they suit Brahms’ Vier ernste Gesange, his Four Serious Songs, wonderfully well, that velvety voice seemingly endless reserves of dynamic and expressive power, and a pianist prepared to linger wherever the singer leads, bringing dark shades of his own to the sound...I’ll be listening to this again and again.

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