This disc gathers all of Brahms' sacred choral music for unaccompanied mixed voices, except for the Sieben Marienlieder of 1859. Taken together with the accompanied sacred choral pieces, including the monumental German Requiem, this amounts to a significant body of work for a composer of his era who was not religious. Brahms was a skilled choral composer and it's a shame that his smaller a cappella works aren't performed more frequently. Except for Zwei Motetten from 1864, all these works come from the last two decades of ...
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This disc gathers all of Brahms' sacred choral music for unaccompanied mixed voices, except for the Sieben Marienlieder of 1859. Taken together with the accompanied sacred choral pieces, including the monumental German Requiem, this amounts to a significant body of work for a composer of his era who was not religious. Brahms was a skilled choral composer and it's a shame that his smaller a cappella works aren't performed more frequently. Except for Zwei Motetten from 1864, all these works come from the last two decades of his life. The pieces here are similar in character to other sacred works as chronologically separated as the German Requiem of 1869 and the Eleven Chorale Preludes for organ, of 1896, the last compositions he wrote, in their contrapuntal textures, harmonic language, and the use of certain cadential figures that he seemed to reserve primarily for his works with religious themes. Their moods range from the solemnly contemplative to the rhapsodic, and it's intriguing to compare the...
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Add this copy of Sacred Choral Music to cart. $2.75, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Add this copy of Sacred Choral Music to cart. $6.71, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Harmonia Mundi.
