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Angelika Kirchschlager
mezzo-soprano
Graham Johnson piano

Graham Johnson’s complete Schubert and Schumann songs series for Hyperion are landmarks in the history of recorded music. Now this indefatigable performer and scholar turns to the songs and vocal works of Brahms. Each disc of this Hyperion edition takes a journey through Brahms’s career. The songs are not quite presented in chronological order but they do appear here in the order that the songs were presented to the world. Each recital represents a different journey through the repertoire (and thus through Brahms’s life). In a number of these Hyperion recitals an opus number will be
presented in its entirety (in the case of this disc, Op 48). The folksongs of 1894 will be shared between all the singers in the series.

Hyperion is delighted to present the celebrated mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager in this first volume of the series.

She enjoys an international career as one of today’s most important singers, dividing her time between recitals and opera in Europe, North America and the Far East.

‘As Ms. Kirchschlager shaped the spacious, arching phrases of the first Brahms song, “Meine Liebe Ist Grün” ... she conveyed the poet’s evocation of a lush, sun-drenched lilac bush, a symbol of his love. Yet the ardor evoked here is intoxicated by the natural fragrance. Ms. Kirchschlager captured this love-drunk state hauntingly through the shimmering and slightly disoriented".

Total Duration: 71'28

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Contents and Reviews

1 Scheiden und Meiden Op 19 No 2 [1'09] 2 In der Ferne Op 19 No 3 [2'16] 3 Von ewiger Liebe Op 43 No 1 [4'45]
4 Der Gang zum Liebchen Op 48 No 1 [1'19] 5 Der Überläufer Op 48 No 2 [1'39]
6 Liebesklage des Mädchens Op 48 No 3 [1'25] 7 Gold überwiegt die Liebe Op 48 No 4 [1'22]
8 Trost in Tränen Op 48 No 5 [3'08] 9 Vergangen ist mir Glück und Heil Op 48 No 6 [4'03]
bl Herbstgefühl Op 48 No 7 [3'20] bm O komme, holde Sommernacht Op 58 No 4 [1'06]
bn Dämmrung senkte sich von oben Op 59 No 1 [3'53] bo Auf dem See Op 59 No 2 [3'08]
bp Junge Lieder I: Meine Liebe ist grün Op 63 No 5 [1'35] bq Junge Lieder II: Wenn um den Holunder Op 63 No 6 [2'11]
br Salome Op 69 No 8 [1'57] bs Abendregen Op 70 No 4 [5'09]
bt Therese Op 86 No 1 [1'33] bu Feldeinsamkeit Op 86 No 2 [2'55] cl Nachtwandler Op 86 No 3 [3'11]
cm Über die Heide Op 86 No 4 [1'58] cn Versunken Op 86 No 5 [1'57]
co Bei dir sind meine Gedanken Op 95 No 2 [1'40] cp Beim Abschied Op 95 No 3 [1'00] cq Der Jäger Op 95 No 4 [1'12]
cr Da unten im Tale WoO33 No 6 [1'54] cs Soll sich der Mond nicht heller scheinen WoO33 No 35 [3'05]
ct Feinsliebchen, du sollst mir nicht barfuss gehn WoO33 No 12 [3'01]
cu Och Moder, ich well en Ding han! WoO33 No 33 [2'16]