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Having focused on music from their home country before, the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir here present a German programme, featuring two of the most influential composers in 19th-century choral music: Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert.
It includes both sacred and secular music, scored for male, female and mixed choir a cappella and accompanied, starting with a selection from Brahms’s deservedly popular Zigeunerlieder for mixed choir and piano. A contrast to these settings of Hungarian folk songs is provided by the autumnal Five Songs for mixed choir a cappella – a collection of poems dealing with the transience of youth, love and life. The motet Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen, shows Bach’s influence on the composer.
Schubert is represented with a setting of Psalm 23 for women’s choir and piano and Der Gesang der Geister über den Wassern.
Johannes Brahms: 11 Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy-Songs), Op. 103
No. 1. He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten
No. 2. Hochgeturmte Rimaflut
No. 3. Wisst ihr, wann mein Kindchen
No. 5. Brauner Bursche fuhrt zum Tanze
No. 7. Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn
No. 8. Horch, der Wind klagt in den Zweigen
No. 9. Weit und breit schaut niemand mich an
No. 10. Mond verhullt sein Angesicht
No. 11. Rote Abendwolken ziehn
Johannes Brahms: 5 Gesange, Op. 104
No. 1. Nachtwache I
No. 2. Nachtwache II
No. 3. Letztes Gluck
No. 4. Verlorene Jugend
No. 5. Im Herbst
Franz Schubert: Psalm 23, Op. 132, D. 706
Psalm 23, Op. 132, D. 706
Franz Schubert: Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern, Op. 167, D. 714
Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern, Op. 167, D. 714
Johannes Brahms: 2 Motets, Op. 74
Warum? Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligen
Lasset uns unser Herz samt den Handen
Siehe, wir preisen selig, die erduldet haben
Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin
Johannes Brahms: Geistliches Lied, Op. 30
Geistliches Lied, Op. 30
February 2012
“I hadn't come across these singers before: they are quite wonderful...The luscious 'Amen', ravishingly sung, is worth the price of the disc.”
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No. 1. He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten
