Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 Marie-Claude Chappuis, Christian Chamorel & Quatuor Sine Nomine

• Felix Schumann (1854 - 1879), Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): 9 Lieder & Songs, Op. 63:
• 1 Schumann, Brahms: 9 Lieder & Songs, Op. 63: No. 5, Meine Liebe ist grün 01:33
• Joseph Wenzig (1807 - 1876), Johannes Brahms: 4 Lieder, Op. 43:
• 2 Wenzig, Brahms: 4 Lieder, Op. 43: No. 1, Von ewiger Liebe 04:21
• Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), Johannes Brahms: 8 Lieder, Op. 59:
• 3 Groth, Brahms: 8 Lieder, Op. 59: No. 8, Dein blaues Auge 01:49
• Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), Johannes Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op. 49:
• 4 Heyse, Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 1, Am Sonntag Morgen 01:12
• Johannes Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116:
• 5 Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 4, Intermezzo 04:28
• Traditional, Johannes Brahms: 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33:
• 6 Traditional, Brahms: 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33: No. 5, Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr 01:16
• 7 Traditional, Brahms: 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33: No. 6, Da unten im Tale 01:38
• 8 Traditional, Brahms: 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33: No. 25, Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund 01:31
• Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), Johannes Brahms: 7 Lieder, Op. 48:
• 9 Hölty, Brahms: 7 Lieder, Op. 48: No. 2, Die Mainacht 03:01
• Johannes Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116:
• 10 Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 3, Capriccio 03:08
• 2 Gesänge, Op. 91:
• 11 Brahms: 2 Gesänge, Op. 91: No. 1, Gestillte Sehnsucht 05:57
• 12 Brahms: 2 Gesänge, Op. 91: No. 2, Geistliches Wiegenlied 05:17
• 7 Fantasien, Op. 116:
• 13 Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 1, Capriccio 02:32
• Old Testament, Johannes Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121:
• 14 Testament, Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: No. 1, Denn es gehet (Arr. for mezzo-soprano and string quartet by Jean-Pierre Moeckli) 04:57
• 15 Testament, Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: No. 2, Ich wandte mich (Arr. for mezzo-soprano and string quartet by Jean-Pierre Moeckli) 03:30
• 16 Testament, Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: No. 3, O Tod (Arr. for mezzo-soprano and string quartet by Jean-Pierre Moeckli) 04:01
• Paul the Apostle, Johannes Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121:
• 17 Apostle, Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: No. 4 Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen redete (Arr. for mezzo-soprano and string quartet by Jean-Pierre Moeckli) 05:10
• Total Runtime 55:21

Info for Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121

“But the greatest of these i love…” – an extremely interesting Brahms album dealing with the “metaphysical” Johannes Brahms, interested in religiosity and transcendence, with the “Four Serious Songs” completed in 1896 as the pivotal point. When the mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude and the pianist Christian Chamorel began to work out the programme for joint concerts and ultimately for an album, they quickly realised that an approach via an interpretation guided primarily by the instrumental, as well as a combination of the most diverse instrumentations, would give the project a welcome personal touch. Just like the haunting transcription of the “Four Serious Songs” for string quartet by violinist and conductor Jean-Pierre Moeckli. And so here we experience a quasi “triple” Brahms: once in the combination of voice-vocal, then in the combination of voice and string quartet and once with selected solo works for piano.

Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzo-soprano
Christian Chamorel, piano
Quatuor Sine Nomine

Marie-Claude Chappuis
Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis sings regularly under the baton of many famous conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Harding, Emmanuelle Haïm, René Jacobs, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Jonathan Nott and Christophe Rousset. She has earned two Grammy nominations, the Swiss Music Award nomination, and the Midem Classical Prize

The milestones of her career have included Idomeneo (Idamante) staged and conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Graz and Zurich, Paisiello’ s Il Matrimonio Inaspettato (Contessa) under Riccardo Muti at Salzburg Festival, La Damnation de Faust (Marguerite) under Sir Roger Norrington in Leipzig, and L’incoronazione di Poppea (Ottavia) at the Berlin State Opera and at La Monnaie in Brussels, one of her numerous collaborations with René Jacobs. Chappuis has been acclaimed for her performances in the title role of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas throughout Europe. She is featured at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Theater an der Wien, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Real in Madrid and Grand Théâtre de Genève.

She is coequally active on concert-stage having recently performed with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Giardino Armonico, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Wiener Philharmoniker.

Her discography includes several recordings with René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi) and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra: La Clemenza di Tito, La finta giardinera, and Mozart Requiem. Other recordings with Jacobs and the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor include Bach B Minor Mass and Telemann Brockes-Passion (Harmonia Mundi). Additional recordings include Beethoven Ninth Symphony conducted by Giovanni Antonini (Sony) and Bach St. Matthew Passion with Riccardo Chailly (Decca). Solo albums include "Sous l'empire d'Amour" – (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 2017) with lutenist Luca Pianca, and “Au coeur des Alpes“ (Sony Classical 2018) songs from Switzerland. Just released: a new recording of Clérambault Les Fables de La Fontaine (B-Records) with Valentin Tournet and La Chapelle Harmonique.

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