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Schubert and Brahms Songs

on BBC Radio 3

JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) with MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
In many Lieder recitals the words in some way dictate the choice of the music. In this one, the music completely dominates. It begins and ends in a very slow tempo, gradually quickening and slowing down again: as it does so, it makes apparent the differing creative characters of its two great composers - Schubert with his lyrical commitment to the mood of the moment, and Brahms, with whom a moment of illumination may come and go even within the confines of a single short song.
Schubert Meeresstille; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Gondelfahrer; Abendrothe; Der Schiffer (1m Winde, im Sturme); Der Strom; Auflosung
Brahms Wahrend des Regens; Sommerfaden; Mein Herz ist schwer; An ein Bild; Abendregen; Der Tod, das ist die kiihle Nacht

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Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Unknown:
Mein Herz

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