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Im Herbst - Choral Works By Brahms & Schubert


Release Date: 10/25/2011 
Label:  Bis   Catalog #: 1869   Spars Code: n/a 
Composer:  Franz Schubert,  Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Dan Styffe,  Oystein Birkeland,  Catherine Bullock,  Ingrid Andsnes,   ... 
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 1 Hours 3 Mins. 

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Notes and Editorial Reviews

‘Some of the most striking and moving singing put down on disc for years’ is how White Night, the previous release with the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and its conductor Grete Pedersen, was described on the website of Gramophone. Having focused on music from their home country before, the team here presents a German programme, featuring two of the most influential composers in 19th-century choral music: Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert. It includes both sacred and secular music, scored for male, female and mixed choir a cappella and accompanied, starting with a selection from Brahms’ deservedly popular Zigeunerlieder for mixed choir and piano. A contrast to these settings of Hungarian folk songs is provided by the autumnal Five Songs for Read more mixed choir a cappella – a collection of poems dealing with the transience of youth, love and life, which in many respects presents a masterful distillation of Brahms’ choral output. From an earlier part of the composer’s career come two sacred works for mixed choir, the motet Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen, showing Bach’s influence on the composer, and Geistliches Lied, with organ accompaniment. Schubert is represented with a setting of Psalm 23 for women’s choir and piano and Der Gesang der Geister über den Wassern to a poem by Goethe which Schubert chose to set several times. The version recorded here, numbered D714, is the last one. It has an unusual scoring for eight- part male choir and low strings which in 1821 perplexed the first audience, and which even today has a very special effect on the listener. Read less

Works on This Recording

1.
Psalm 23, D 706/Op. 132 by Franz Schubert
Performer:  Dan Styffe (Double Bass), Oystein Birkeland (Cello), Catherine Bullock (Viola),
Ingrid Andsnes (Piano), Kare Nordstoga (Organ), Madelene Berg (Viola),
Ole-Eirik Ree (Cello)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1820; Vienna, Austria 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 5 Minutes 24 Secs. 
2.
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D 714b/Op. 167 by Franz Schubert
Performer:  Dan Styffe (Double Bass), Oystein Birkeland (Cello), Catherine Bullock (Viola),
Madelene Berg (Viola), Ole-Eirik Ree (Cello)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1821 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 10 Minutes 39 Secs. 
3.
Songs (5), Op. 104 by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Dan Styffe (Double Bass), Oystein Birkeland (Cello), Catherine Bullock (Viola),
Ingrid Andsnes (Piano), Kare Nordstoga (Organ), Madelene Berg (Viola),
Ole-Eirik Ree (Cello)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1888; Austria 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 13 Minutes 42 Secs. 
4.
Geistliches Lied, Op. 30 by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Kare Nordstoga (Organ), Kåre Nordstoga (Organ)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1856; Germany 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 5 Minutes 41 Secs. 
5.
Motets (2), Op. 74: no 1, Warum ist das Licht gegeben by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Dan Styffe (Double Bass), Oystein Birkeland (Cello), Catherine Bullock (Viola),
Ingrid Andsnes (Piano), Kare Nordstoga (Organ), Madelene Berg (Viola),
Ole-Eirik Ree (Cello)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1877; Austria 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 10 Minutes 2 Secs. 
6.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 1. He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten ein! by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 1 Minutes 20 Secs. 
7.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 2. Hochgetürmte Rimaflut, wie bist du trüb by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 1 Minutes 25 Secs. 
8.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 3. Wißt ihr, wann mein Kindchen am allerschön by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 1 Minutes 25 Secs. 
9.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 5. Brauner ursche führt zum Tanze by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 1 Minutes 19 Secs. 
10.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 7. Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 2 Minutes 3 Secs. 
11.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 8. Horch, der Wind klagt in den Zweigen traur by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs. 
12.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 9. Weit und breit schaut niemand mich an by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 1 Minutes 45 Secs. 
13.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 10. Mond verhüllt sein Angesicht by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 3 Minutes 4 Secs. 
14.
11 Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, for mixed choir and piano: 11. Rote Abendwolken ziehn am Firmament by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Ingrid Andsnes (Piano)
Conductor:  Grete Pedersen
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1887 
 Date of Recording: 11/2010 
Venue:  Ris Kirke, Oslo, Norway 
Length: 1 Minutes 34 Secs. 

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