Brahms: beautiful choir music, performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stefan Parkman.
This hour of Radio Romantica is filled entirely with a selection from the beautiful choir music from Johannes Brahms. His op. 17 is an early work that he composed for the ladies’ choir in Hamburg which he conducted.
The Drei Gesänge are for six-voice choir a cappella on texts filled with romantic metaphors. In the Zigeunerlieder, op.103, Brahms taps from a different keg. He combines the tone of his own, very well-known Hungarian Dances with his Liebesliederwalzer for vocal quartet and piano. Although he wrote these compositions literally for fun, they were already among his bestsellers during his lifetime. Bengt Forsberg plays the grand piano. Finally, you will hear a late choral work by the master, his Sechs Quartette, op.112. This wonderfully beautiful choral programme is sung for you by the choir of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Swedish choirmaster Stefan Parkman.
Playlist:
Johannes Brahms
- Vier Gesänge, op.17
- Drei Gesänge, op.42
- Zigeunerlieder, op.103
- Sechs Quartette, op.112
Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stefan Parkman.
