Brahms composed the piece in 1881, in memory of his deceased friend Anselm Feuerbach. "Nanie" (Song of Lamentation) is not about simple despair or mere complaint. Even in such dark moments, Schiller's romanticism is expressed as a yearning for the unattainable. The work opens with "Auch das Schone muss sterben!" (Even Beauty must die), and the tension between the veracity of the message and the yearning of the human spirit for the timelessness of temporality and the eternal recurrence of beauty can be sensed in the sheer beauty of Brahm's music. Unabridged digitally enhanced reprint of the...
Brahms composed the piece in 1881, in memory of his deceased friend Anselm Feuerbach. "Nanie" (Song of Lamentation) is not about simple despair or mer...
Brahms enriched the genre of chorus and orchestra with two impressive works from the early 1880s: In 1881, he set a text to Schiller's Nanie (Op. 82, four-part chorus and orchestra) and the next year (1882) he set Goethe's Song of the Fates (Op. 89, six-part chorus and orchestra). Goethe's text for Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op. 89 explores the concept of fate as it relates to mankind. The text admonishes us to "Fear the Gods! They hold the power In eternal hands And can use it As they please." Brahms' setting portrays the contrast between the capriciousness of the Fates and the...
Brahms enriched the genre of chorus and orchestra with two impressive works from the early 1880s: In 1881, he set a text to Schiller's Nanie (Op. 82, ...
New digitally-enhanced reprint of the classic vocal score issued by Breitkopf & Hartel in the early 20th century edited by the eminent musicologist Eusebius Mandyczewski.
New digitally-enhanced reprint of the classic vocal score issued by Breitkopf & Hartel in the early 20th century edited by the eminent musicologist Eu...
Franz Schubert, Pro, Eusebius Mandyczewski, Friedrich Spiro
This is new, unabridged, digitally enhanced reprint of the classic vocal score for Schubert's youthful masterpiece prepared by Friedrich Spiro and published in 1904 by Breitkopf & Hartel. Composed when Schubert was only 17, the Mass in G entered the choral repertoire soon after its first publication in the mid-1800s. It's been a staple of the repertoire ever since.
This is new, unabridged, digitally enhanced reprint of the classic vocal score for Schubert's youthful masterpiece prepared by Friedrich Spiro and pub...
Franz Schubert, Pro, Eusebius Mandyczewski, Georg Göhler
Schubert's twelve movement work is a setting of a German paraphrase of the Latin sequence by F.G. Klopstock (1724-1803). It contains some of his finest choral writing. Unabridged digitally enhanced reprint of a vocal score prepared by Georg Gohler first issued in 1910 by Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig. Now with measure numbers and a very readable large A4 format.
Schubert's twelve movement work is a setting of a German paraphrase of the Latin sequence by F.G. Klopstock (1724-1803). It contains some of his fines...
