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Fünf Lieder, Op 94
composer
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
1883/4; published in December 1884 as Fünf Lieder für eine tiefe Singstimme und Klavier

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain

Recordings
Cover of 'Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 4 – Robert Holl' (CDJ33124)
Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 4 – Robert Holl
Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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CDJ33124 
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No 1: Mit vierzig Jahren
author of text
Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866)

Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 12 on CDJ33124 [3'59]
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No 2: Steig auf, geliebter Schatten
author of text
Friedrich Halm (1806-1871)
In der Südsee

Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 13 on CDJ33124 [2'33]
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No 3: Mein Herz ist schwer
author of text
Emanuel von Geibel (1815-1884)
Spätherbstblätter

Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 14 on CDJ33124 [2'30]
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No 4: Sapphische Ode  Rosen brach ich nachts mir am dunklen Hage
author of text
Hans Schmidt (1856-1923)
Gedichte und Übersetzungen

Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 15 on CDJ33124 [2'30]
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No 5: Kein Haus, keine Heimat
author of text
Friedrich Halm (1806-1871)
In der Südsee

Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Track 16 on CDJ33124 [0'39]
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Fünf Lieder, Op 94
This opus number, united by its tonalities for low voice, and with texts that can, and should, be sung by one singer, is one of the composer’s published groupings that repays performance as a whole, or even as a kind of mini-cycle. Brahms’s friend, the surgeon Billroth, clearly perceived it is a kind of equivalent to Schubert’s Winterreise, although he saw the songs as being equally linked with autumn. Certainly, in the first song, the imagery of taking up the wanderer’s walking staff with renewed energy as the narrator makes his way to his final destination, is strongly reminiscent of the closing sentiments of Das Wirtshaus from Schubert’s great cycle.

from notes by Graham Johnson © 2012

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