Brahms: Lieder Album Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Sehnsucht, Op. 14, No. 8:
• 1 Brahms: Sehnsucht, Op. 14, No. 8 00:46
• Der Überläufer, Op. 48, No. 2:
• 2 Brahms: Der Überläufer, Op. 48, No. 2 01:13
• Vor dem Fenster, Op. 14, No. 1:
• 3 Brahms: Vor dem Fenster, Op. 14, No. 1 02:46
• Von ewiger Liebe, Op. 43, No. 1:
• 4 Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe, Op. 43, No. 1 03:54
• Vom verwundeten Knaben, Op. 14, No. 2:
• 5 Brahms: Vom verwundeten Knaben, Op. 14, No. 2 01:56
• Der Gang zum Liebchen, Op. 48, No. 1:
• 6 Brahms: Der Gang zum Liebchen, Op. 48, No. 1 01:31
• 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32:
• 7 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 1, Wie rafft' ich mich auf in der Nacht 04:00
• 8 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 2, Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen 02:26
• 9 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 3, Ich schleich umher betrübt 01:27
• 10 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 4, Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte 01:16
• 11 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 5, Wehe, so willst du mich wieder 01:52
• 12 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 6, Du sprichst, dass ich mich täuschte 02:34
• 13 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 7, Bitteres zu sagen, denkst du 01:46
• 14 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 8, So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide 01:57
• 15 Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: No. 9, Wie bist du, meine Königin 03:32
• "Regenlied"-Zyklus:
• 16 Brahms: "Regenlied"-Zyklus: Walle, Regen, walle nieder "Regenlied" (Frühfassung von Op. 59 No 3) 04:31
• 17 Brahms: "Regenlied"-Zyklus: Dein blaues Auge (Frühfassung von Op. 59 No. 8) 01:47
• 18 Brahms: "Regenlied"-Zyklus: Mein wundes Herz (Frühfassung von Op. 59 No. 7) 01:36
• 19 Brahms: "Regenlied"-Zyklus: Regentropfen aus den Bäumen "Nachklang" (Frühfassung von Op. 59 No. 4) 01:34
• Meine Lieder, Op. 106, No. 4:
• 20 Brahms: Meine Lieder, Op. 106, No. 4 01:50
• Geheimnis, Op. 71, No. 3:
• 21 Brahms: Geheimnis, Op. 71, No. 3 01:53
• Die Mainacht, Op. 43, No. 2:
• 22 Brahms: Die Mainacht, Op. 43, No. 2 03:04
• Auf dem Kirchhofe, Op. 105, No. 4:
• 23 Brahms: Auf dem Kirchhofe, Op. 105, No. 4 02:46
• O kühler Wald, Op. 72, No. 3:
• 24 Brahms: O kühler Wald, Op. 72, No. 3 01:58
• Treue Liebe, Op. 7, No. 1:
• 25 Brahms: Treue Liebe, Op. 7, No. 1 02:30
• Herbstgefühl, Op. 48, No. 7:
• 26 Brahms: Herbstgefühl, Op. 48, No. 7 03:24
• Lerchengesang, Op. 70, No. 2:
• 27 Brahms: Lerchengesang, Op. 70, No. 2 02:02
• Die Kränze, Op. 46, No. 1:
• 28 Brahms: Die Kränze, Op. 46, No. 1 03:41
• Regentropfen aus den Bäumen, WoO 23:
• 29 Brahms: Regentropfen aus den Bäumen, WoO 23 01:38
• Total Runtime 01:07:10

Info for Brahms: Lieder Album

For their latest album, recorded live at the Reitstadel in Neumarkt, Christian Gerhaher and his long-time duo-partner, Gerold Huber, have revisited the songs of the great Romantic composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Yet it is not their first time: on their debut album in 2002 you´ll already find the 'Four Serious Songs' Op. 121, and in 2017 they released their version of 'Romances from L. Tieck´s Magelone', Op. 33. However, with this album, they bring single songs and cycles to the fore that testify to an intense striving by Brahms to create a new 'folk tune'. Embedded into social changes of the 19th century, Brahms here tries to establish the art song as a reflection of its own imagined history as well as a reminiscence and portrayal of a naturalness gradually becoming lost during the rise of the modern world - similar to the ambivalence between tradition and progress, noticeable in his instrumental works.

As always, thanks to their ideal interweaving of words and music, Gerhaher and Huber introduce a new perspective to these songs. Among the works recorded here, apart from the exemplary cycle of the 'Neun Lieder und Gesänge' Op.32 and the 'Regenlied' cycle of posthumously published poems by Klaus Groth (which are heard here in their rarely performed early version) you will find well-known pieces such as 'Sehnsucht' and 'Von ewiger Liebe'.

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano

Christian Gerhaher
first completed his medical studies in Munich. He also studied singing, both privately and as a guest, at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts, as well as in courses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Inge Borkh. Opera engagements have taken him to the Frankfurt Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper and the Berlin State Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Salzburg Festival. His repertoire currently includes roles such as the Count and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Amfortas (Parsifal), and the title roles in Orfeo, Don Giovanni, Simon Boccanegra, and Wozzeck. A particular focus of his work is lieder and concert singing. Together with his duo partner, pianist Gerold Huber, he heads the Lied Department at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. In 2015, he was named a Bavarian Kammersänger. In the 2023/24 season, he performed at the Bavarian State Opera as Amfortas and Wolfram, as well as Golaud in the new production of Pelléas et Mélisande, and in a Festival Lieder recital.

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