Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Serenade' Op 70 No 3)

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Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Serenade' Op 70 No 3)
Simon Bode (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

[ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 20 November 2011

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Hyperion is thrilled to welcome the young German tenor Simon Bode to the label. At home in the opera house and the recital hall, Bode possesses a controlled voice of great beauty, and gives performances of immediacy and conviction. Johnson, as accompanist, is immaculate and his usual scholarly notes are of course included.

"Bode sings [Sehnsucht and the Wiegenlied] with a fine sense of artistry and wonderment. Johnson takes care over his placing of Brahms's many folksong settings within this series, inserting a few at a time. Here, they frame the recital, with Bode's instinctive musicality making an irresistably friendly greeting of 'Wach auf, mein Herzensschone.'" BBC Music Magazine, January 2012 ****

"His tone is sweet and gently rounded, his diction crystal-clear, his phrasing always thoughtful. Spinning a rapt, sustained lined, he movingly catches the Brahmsian twilit melancholy of 'Abenddammerung'...'Wiegenlied', too, is as dulcet as you could wish, with singer and pianist vindicating a provocatively slumbrous [sic] tempo." Gramophone Magazine, February 2012

"Bode has an unquestionably beautiful voice, his line is exquisitely controlled and his care over words and meaning were already evident in the folksong settings...There are marvellous things, such as a wondrously sustained "Es hing der Reif". Indeed, according to their own lights, all the performances are marvellous...Every Brahmsian quality you could want is here except fullness of heart" MusicWeb International, March 2012

Tracks:

Wach auf, mein Herzensschöne, WoO33 No. 16
Erlaube mir, fein's Mädchen (No. 2 from Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33)
Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund (No. 25 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33)
Ein Sonett, Op. 14 No. 4 (Herder)
Ständchen, Op. 14 No. 7
Der Kuss, Op. 19, No. 1
An eine Äolsharfe, Op. 19 No. 5
Magyarisch, Op. 46, No. 2
Die Schale der Vergessenheit, Op. 46, No. 3
Lieder (5), Op. 49
Mein wundes Herz verlangt, Op, 59, No. 7
Im Garten, Op. 70 No. 1
Lerchengesang Op. 70 No. 2
Serenade, Op. 70 No. 3
An den Mond, Op. 71 No. 2 (Text: K. Simrock)
In Waldeseinsamkeit, Op. 85 No. 6
Auf dem Schiffe, Op. 97, No. 2
Es hing der Reif, Op. 106 No. 3
Ein Wanderer, Op. 106 No. 5
Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr (No. 5 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33)
Wo gehst du hin, du Stolze? WoO33, No. 22
Es steht ein Lind (No. 41 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33)