I was the baritone on this, first work.Had no idea it had gone to RU-vid. We were were all students at RNCM. A wonderful place to study singing and all music. Rosemary Walton , accompanist, was brilliant.
The Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52 are some of my favourite Brahms pieces of all. It’s Brahms unfettered by academic convention or constraints. He’s just letting his hair down. It’s the most exuberant, lyrical and smiley series of choral waltzes that you can possibly imagine. I first heard them on a recording that my teacher Nadia Boulanger made with her star pupil Dinu Lipatti. Even though she wasn’t a great fan of Brahms, her playing with Lipatti has all the right ingredients of virtuosity and enchantment - it’s just beautiful. They are the greatest fun to perform too. When we do them with the Monteverdi Choir, everyone is just beaming from ear to ear. Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
As I was reading your comment, my jaw dropped when you said you'd studied with Boulanger! 🫨 And then I got to the end and saw you were quoting Sir John Gardiner. Lol You had me going for a minute there. 😄
My high school choir sang these with our local choral society in a joint concert and I've loved them for the almost 3 decades since. They're some of my favorite not just Brahms pieces, but classical pieces in general. Thank you for putting them here for us to enjoy. 💝🎼🎶
I performed most of these (we had to cut some out for time reasons) in grad school and it was such a delight and such a thrill! I also love PDQ Bach's LIebeslieder Polkas, which are really well done parodies and great music on their own.
My favorite of Brahms' choral works. I first sang them as part of a quartet at a local Brahms Festival put on by conductor Joseph Kreines. I was 19 or 20, and the tenor of our quartet was (then future) Metropolitan Opera singer Mark Baker before he went to NYC and began his operatic career. A few years later, I sang them with the Florida State University Chamber Singers under the direction of the late, great Clayton Krehbiel, who was often the tenor soloist with the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Je viens de découvrir cette perle de finesse dans une interprétation superbe : énormément d'expressivité, de sensibilité et de justesse dans l'expression verbale, une amplitude de nuances formidable; une prise de son sans défaut et une image stéréophonique très bien façonnée et équilibrée. Superbe ! Et, par dessus le marché, on peut suivre le conducteur filmé et bien coordonné avec le son : du travail de pro, et je sais de quoi je parle ! Merci de ce cadeau...totalement gratuit et placé au sommet de l'Art. Chapeau ! ça c'est le bon coté d'internet... JLL
Prise de son remarquable, homogénéité des voix, Bravo a tous ! Beaucoup de feeling de la musique, une grande complicité entre les choristes est ressentie. C'est vraiment une pépite !!
Cette oeuvre délicieuse est toujours un régal. Quelle joie de commencer ainsi l'année ! (Thanks a lot for this sensitive performance and to share it with us.)
14:08 through 15:32 eloquently expresses subtle theories on creating peace within chaos, and with an infinite amount of vulnerability. I recently discovered this musical passage from the movie, Little Man Tate; it was ingeniously aligned with how Dianne Weist's character (Jane) tried to repress her darkest yet unspoken childhood trauma, by recalling how cleverly she was able to think of an incredibly peaceful passage of Classical Music to distract herself from some of her most painful moments as a child prodigy; hence the vulnerable facial expressions she wears while starting to vocalize this stunning musical passage. Furthermore, I never ever loved Brahms until I was exposed to this musical peace.
Op. 52- Liebslieder-waltzer: dezoito breves canções para coro misto e acompanhamento de piano. São canções em ritmo de valsa refletindo com intensidade o espírito alemão simples, como melodias cantadas em pequenas cidades alemãs por pessoas simples e alegres. Brahms as harmoniza sempre ao seu modo, usando cromatismo e modulação. Na sétima canção, de apenas 1 minuto e 22 segundos, um soprano dialoga com o coro. Na décima sétima, é a vez de um tenor. Op. 65- Neue Liebslieder: ao todo, 15 canções nos moldes do Op. 52. Brahms compõe canções ao gosto popular, embora sua música coral seja pouco conhecida até mesmo dos apreciadores e estudiosos de sua obra. Certamente, o povo alemão a desconhece. Novamente, Brahms revela nessas canções acompanhadas por piano a simplicidade das melodias alemãs. Mas, em suas mãos, a harmonização é sempre primorosa. A voz de soprano destaca-se nas canções n° 3, 6, 9 e 11, enquanto um contralto aparece na 5º, o tenor na 10º e o baixo na 4°.
I’m about to ask the chairman of everything Voice at my seminary if I can put together a performance of the whole work. The catch is I would need to find a peer or that professor to conduct it because I am the only bass student with any experience in professional singing. This very work was my first performance outside of the school.
Hello Bartje! Thanks for posting an excellent version of the Liebeslieder Waltzer. I also would like to know if you have the complete score for op 52 an op 65. If so, please send me a message, it has been very difficult to find a legible score online. Thanks! I´ll be waiting for your answer.
Sehr schön. Nur die forte Passagen klingen etwas zu schrill, auffällig bei den Sopranstimmen. Die Musik von Brahms gefällt mir sehr, besonders die Chorliteratur und die Sinfonien.
2022:Thanks RU-vid Staff! Nadia Boulangers’ told her pupil, my piano teacher (Fountainblu, FR.) of a story of Brahms who liked Walking in German Black Forrest while dating rose colored cheek girls. His passionate musical imagination motifs of yearning and pleading for 💕 love is mirrored in his phrases musically and poems used as lyrics here in Opus52/65. FYI: Two pianos accompaniment on Scores! I later learnt- to accompany choirs, as pianist SFCM! I listen acutely and immediately stop to hear this when it is used as Film Background piece,Ie, Little Man Tate).
9.- Am Donaustrande, da steht ein Haus, da schaut ein rosiges Mädchen aus. Das Mädchen, es ist wohl gut gehegt, zehn eiserne Riegel sind vor die Türe gelegt. Zehn eiserne Riegel das ist ein Spaß; die spreng ich, als wären sie nur von Glas. 10.- O wie sanft die Quelle sich durch die Wiese windet; O wie schön, wenn Liebe sich zu der Liebe findet! 9.- En las orillas del Danubio hay una casa. Allí vive una muchachita en flor. La muchachita está bien guardada pues diez cerrojos cierran su puerta. Diez cerrojos de hierro ¡qué tontería! yo los haré saltar como si fuesen de cristal. 10.- Cuán suavemente el riachuelo a través de la pradera corre. ¡Cuánta dicha cuando el amor, al amor encuentra!
I believe that Brahms has a very hard harmony here, specially in the first bars. I really don't know if on top of the weird harmony the performers are slightly out of tune. I'm astonished.
