Brahms’s Ave Maria was composed in 1858. The widely-held opinions in the literature on Brahms – that the work has justifiably been forgotten, the part-writing is monotonous and the style and diction is ponderous – don’t do justice to a truly charming piece, based on folksong-like models.
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Johannes Brahms
| 1833-1897Johannes Brahms' study of musical tradition was of crucial importance to his output: he combined church modes, canonic technique, Baroque style and diction, Bach's counterpoint and Beethoven's thematic-motivic work with the harmonic and expressive achievements of Romanticism to form his own distinctive style. In this respect his choral songs and vocal quartets (e.g. the “Liebeslieder Waltzes” and “New Liebeslieder Waltzes”), often to folk song texts, in which a musical microcosm unfolds, are examplary. His “Deutsches Requiem”, available from Carus in several different versions, constitutes one of the most fascinating confessions of faith in the history of music. Personal details
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Brahms: Ave Maria
Brahms: Ave Maria
An ein Juwel der geistlichen Frauenchorliteratur soll nur erinnert werden. Das schon lange bei Carus erhältliche Werk gibt es dort in zwei Fassungen; in der bekannteren und wohl auch zu bevorzugenden Fassung für SSM und Orgel und in einer orchestrierten Fassung, die Brahms offenbar für eine besondere Aufführung anfertigte. Verwunderlich ist, dass dieses feine Stück selten im Konzert zu hören ist. Allerdings auf einer der neuen Carus-CDs in einer vorzüglichen Aufnahme mit dem Stuttgarter Kammerchor unter Frieder Bernius („Warum ist das Licht gegeben”, CV 83.201).
Quelle: Schwäbische Sängerzeitung 11/1997, S. 18
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