Brahms wrote two sets of Liebeslieder Walzer (Love Song Waltzes) for vocal quartet and piano four hands, separated by just six years. They're part of a repertory that was common in much of the 19th century when vocal quartets were present almost everywhere in German-speaking lands, and during the LP era they were almost always performed together and often by a choir. They're quite different in mood, however, and even in the forces involved, with many more songs for solo soprano in the Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65, than in the ...
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Brahms wrote two sets of Liebeslieder Walzer (Love Song Waltzes) for vocal quartet and piano four hands, separated by just six years. They're part of a repertory that was common in much of the 19th century when vocal quartets were present almost everywhere in German-speaking lands, and during the LP era they were almost always performed together and often by a choir. They're quite different in mood, however, and even in the forces involved, with many more songs for solo soprano in the Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65, than in the Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52. Britain's Prince Consort performs them with one brisk voice per part, which cuts the sweetness of the first set, and leader Alisdair Hogarth reasoned that the CD format allowed for the interposition of another set of songs that would connect Brahms' two sets and soften the rather sharp contrast between them. With few contemporary pieces having been written for these forces, they commissioned one from British-Australian composer Stephen Hough, who appears...
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