Brahms op 105

Dame Sarah Connolly, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Malcolm Martineau - Brahms Songbook, Vol. 2 (2024)

Dame Sarah Connolly, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Malcolm Martineau - Brahms Songbook, Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:09:46 | 257 Mb
Genre: Classical

Pianist Malcolm Martineau is the brilliant initiator of this new one-of-a-kind series on Linn. The Brahms Songbook has set the unprecedented goal to record Brahms's lieder by complete opus number. In this second instalment, Malcolm is joined by star mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and bass-baritone Hanno Muller-Brachmann in five sets that were composed and published over a period of thirty years: Op. 72, Op. 105, Op. 43, Op. 48 and Op. 57. In a time when the middle-class was growing, song-writing was both lucrative and pleasurable, offering a myriad of ways to explore perennially popular topics like unrequited love. Yet, in the lieder recorded here Brahms immerses us in a heightened emotional world, distant from the drawing rooms and concert halls of the bourgeoisie.
Dame Sarah Connolly, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Malcolm Martineau - Brahms Songbook, Vol. 2 (2024)

Dame Sarah Connolly, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Malcolm Martineau - Brahms Songbook, Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:09:46 | 257 Mb
Genre: Classical

Pianist Malcolm Martineau is the brilliant initiator of this new one-of-a-kind series on Linn. The Brahms Songbook has set the unprecedented goal to record Brahms's lieder by complete opus number. In this second instalment, Malcolm is joined by star mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and bass-baritone Hanno Muller-Brachmann in five sets that were composed and published over a period of thirty years: Op. 72, Op. 105, Op. 43, Op. 48 and Op. 57. In a time when the middle-class was growing, song-writing was both lucrative and pleasurable, offering a myriad of ways to explore perennially popular topics like unrequited love. Yet, in the lieder recorded here Brahms immerses us in a heightened emotional world, distant from the drawing rooms and concert halls of the bourgeoisie.

Alban Berg Quartett - Schumann, Brahms & Dvořák (2024)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 22, 2024
Alban Berg Quartett - Schumann, Brahms & Dvořák (2024)

Alban Berg Quartett - Schumann, Brahms & Dvořák (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2,06 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,11 Gb | 08:14:18
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

One of the greatest string quartets of the 20th-century, the - 100% Austrian - Alban Berg Quartett remains famous for their unsurpassable renditions of the great Viennese masters. The ensemble notably put on record the supreme Beethoven cycle twice, once in studio, once in the Wiener Konzerthaus. Enjoy large excerpts of these milestone recordings, coupled with late masterpieces of Schubert (the Trout Quintet featuring Elisabeth Leonskaja, the quintet with two cellos featuring Heinrich Schiff…)

VA - Classical for the Brain: Brahms (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 22, 2024
VA - Classical for the Brain: Brahms (2022)

VA - Brahms: Classical for the Brain (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 4.03 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 2.3 GB
17:16:26 | Classical | Label: UMG

The stature of Johannes Brahms among classical composers is best illustrated by his inclusion among the "Three Bs" triumvirate of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Of all the major composers of the late Romantic era, Brahms was the one most attached to the Classical ideal as manifested in the music of Haydn, Mozart, and especially Beethoven; indeed, Hans von Bülow once characterized Brahms' Symphony No. 1 (1855-1876) as "Beethoven's Tenth." As a youth, Brahms was championed by Robert Schumann as music's greatest hope for the future; as a mature composer, Brahms became the most potent symbol of musical tradition for conservative musical journalists, a stalwart against the "degeneration" represented by the music of Wagner and his school.

VA - Classical for the Brain: Brahms (2022)  Music

Posted by at Aug. 22, 2024
VA - Classical for the Brain: Brahms (2022)

VA - Brahms: Classical for the Brain (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 4.03 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 2.3 GB
17:16:26 | Classical | Label: UMG

The stature of Johannes Brahms among classical composers is best illustrated by his inclusion among the "Three Bs" triumvirate of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Of all the major composers of the late Romantic era, Brahms was the one most attached to the Classical ideal as manifested in the music of Haydn, Mozart, and especially Beethoven; indeed, Hans von Bülow once characterized Brahms' Symphony No. 1 (1855-1876) as "Beethoven's Tenth." As a youth, Brahms was championed by Robert Schumann as music's greatest hope for the future; as a mature composer, Brahms became the most potent symbol of musical tradition for conservative musical journalists, a stalwart against the "degeneration" represented by the music of Wagner and his school.
Rachel Harnisch, Marina Viotti, Yannick Debus, Jan Schultsz - Brahms: Lieder & Duette (2020)

Rachel Harnisch, Marina Viotti, Yannick Debus, Jan Schultsz - Brahms: Lieder & Duette (2020)
FLAC tracks | 02:05:54 | 414 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Pan Classics

Johannes Brahms wrote well over 300 lieder, including his arrangements of German folk songs, partsongs and choral lieder. Considering how long he carried a song around in his head before writing and publishing the final version, this is an astonishing amount. This 2-CD-set presents a selection from Brahms huge lied repertoire, which not only gives an impression of his importance to music history up to the present day and what a perfect lied composer he was, but also reveals what a cheerful, young-at-heart and humorous person he must have been. The selection of songs and duets is arranged chronologically (1853-1896) and includes all phases of his life in which the lied played a central role, thus allowing the development of the German-language song in the time after Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann to be clearly traced. The pianist Jan Schultsz plays on a wonderful original J.B. Streicher fortepiano from 1871, a model on which Brahms also preferred to play. The singers are Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Marina Viotti (mezzo-soprano) and Yannick Debus (baritone) - young singers who have already celebrated successes in concert and in major opera houses.
Edward Rushton & Simon Wallfisch - Johannes Brahms: Songs of Loss & Betrayal (2020)

Edward Rushton & Simon Wallfisch - Johannes Brahms: Songs of Loss & Betrayal (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 210 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:02:01
Classical, Vocal | Label: Resonus Classics

Following their acclaimed recording of songs by Robert Schumann, the baritone and piano duo Simon Wallfisch and Edward Rushton return to Resonus Classics with an evocative selection of songs by Johannes Brahms. Entitled Songs of Loss and Betrayal, this intoxicating programme sees Brahms using his settings of poetry as a powerful channel for his own feelings, recalling his own personal memories of unrequited love, loss and betrayal.
Christoph Prégardien & Ulrich Eisenlohr - Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 1 (2021)

Christoph Prégardien & Ulrich Eisenlohr - Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 1 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 210 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 150 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:51
Classical, Vocal | Label: Naxos Records

This first volume of Brahms’ complete songs spans a period of nearly 25 years. A prolific composer of Lieder, Brahms’ adherence to traditional form was accompanied by a modern approach to compositional style. Thematically, most songs explore ideas of love, loneliness and solitude, perfectly exemplified by the Vier Gesänge, Op. 43. In a similar way the Sechs Lieder, Op. 86 share a common theme of a farewell to life. This volume contains some of his greatest songs, including Die Mainacht, as well as little-known jewels such as Versunken.
Clément Lefebvre & Shuichi Okada - Johannes Brahms, Robert & Clara Schumann (2019)

Clément Lefebvre & Shuichi Okada - Johannes Brahms, Robert & Clara Schumann (2019)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:00:05 | 138 Mb
Classical | Label: Mirare

This is the romantic story of a three-way love-affair told to us in music. We know that the young Brahms, as beautiful as a star, made a very noticed irruption within the couple Schumann. "Arrival of Brahms, a genius! Notes Robert in his diary with an extraordinary intuition. The sequel is told by Shuichi Okada on violin and Clément Lefebvre on piano, two young musicians of the National Conservatory of Music of Paris, co-producer of the present, where they deftly weave the links between the three characters. Schumann's First Sonata in A minor, Op. 105, opens fire, followed by two excerpts from the famous Sonata F-A-E, composed by Schumann, Brahms and Dietrich, the latter unfortunately being systematically left out by the violinists. Caught in the vice between the two men who love him, here is Clara with his Three Romances, Op. 22 which precedes the very melancholy Sonata No. 1, Op. 78, "Regen-Sonate" by Brahms. The music gathered here speaks better than words of how the three composers respond to one another and become a kind of common language, that of the impulses of the heart, of the outpouring of feelings and the unspoken.
Mischa Maisky, Pavel Gililov - Brahms: Songs without Words (1997)

Mischa Maisky, Pavel Gililov - Brahms: Songs without Words (1997)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 294 MB | 01:08:27
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Although the profound soul-stirring that sits at the very core of the Sapphische Ode only partially translates to a solo cello, Brahms’s skill as the mellowest of melodists and Mischa Maisky’s warming sound palette still manage to convey some of its poetic essence. My main problem here is not with the transcriptions – most of them work rather well – or, indeed, with Maisky’s tone, but with a manner of phrasing that is too ‘clean’ for what should be a soaring top line.