Interpreted by Mark Raphael
An die Nachtigall (To the Nightingale) Sonntag (Sunday)
Die Schnur (The Necklace) Botschaft (The Message)
At the Piano George Reeves

Brahms ranks as one of the finest of song writers. His melodies have a fine 'line' and his rhythms and harmonies are now sombrely, now exhilaratingly, expressive. His emotion is often deep and always true.

The first of to-night's songs is that of one in whom the mournful song of the nightingale arouses sad memories. ' Pour not out so the strains of love,' he pleads.
Sonntag. Sunday is the happy day on which the lover first saw the maiden whom he feels is the one for him, for she has a thousand charms. All the week he will cherish the smile she gave him; but that, sweet as it is, will not content him. ' Would to heaven I were with her to-day!' is his fervent exclamation.
Die Schnur is about the string of pearls that shines so fair upon the lovely wearer's neck.
In Botschaft the lover begs the breeze, as it gently fans his beloved, to listen, and, if she should be wondering if he still lives in sorrow, to whisper to her that he was indeed in the depths of gloom, until new hope came to him, at the moment his loved one thought of him.