Karlsruhe waltz bliss – If I were a pretty little bird!

Works by

Johannes Brahms and Wolfgang Rihm

Featuring

Christiane Libor soprano
Jasmin Etminan alto
Ferdinand Dehner tenor
Stephan Klemm bass
Yuriko Watanabe piano
Hartmut Höll piano
Denys Proshayev piano 
Sontraud Speidel piano 

Programme

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 
Liebesliederwalzer (Love songs waltzes) for 4 voice parts and piano 4 hands op. 52
1. Rede, Mädchen, allzu liebes (SATB)
2. Am Gesteine rauscht die Flut (SATB)
3. O die Frauen (TB)
4. Wie des Abends schöne Röte (SA)
5. Die grüne Hopfenranke (SATB)
6. Ein kleiner, hübscher Vogel (SATB)
7. Wohl schön bewandt war es
8. Wenn so lind dein Auge mir (SATB)
9. Am Donaustrande (SATB)
10. O wie sanft die Quelle (SATB)
11. Nein, es ist nich auszukommen (SATB)
12. Schlosser auf und mache Schlösser (SATB)
13. Vögelein durchrauscht die Luft (SA)
14. Sieh, wie ist die Welle klar (TB)
15. Nachtigall, sie singt so schön (SATB)
16. Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe (SATB)
17. Nicht wandle, mein Licht
18. Es bebet das Gesträuche

Christiane Libor soprano
Jasmin Etminan alto
Ferdinand Dehner tenor
Stephan Klemm bass
Yuriko Watanabe and Hartmut Höll piano

Wolfgang Rihm (1952-2024)
Mehrere kurze Walzer für Klavier zu vier Händen (Several short waltzes for piano four hands)

Denys Proshayev and Sontraud Speidel piano

Pause

Wolfgang Rihm (1952-2024)
Brahmsliebewalzer for piano (1985)

Denys Proshayev and Sontraud Speidel piano 

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
„Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer“ for 4 voice parts and piano 4 hands op. 65 (1874/75)
1. Verzicht, o Herz, auf Rettung, (SATB)
2. Finstere Schatten der Nacht (SATB)
3.  An jeder Hand die Finger (S)
4. Ihr schwarzen Augen (B)
5. Wahre, wahre deinen Sohn (A)
6. Rosen steckt mir an die Mutter (S)
7. Vom Gebirge Well auf Well (SATB)
8. Weiche Gräser im Revier (SATB)
9. Nagen am Herzen (S)
10. Ich kose süß mit der und der (T)
11. Alles, alles in den Wind (S)
12. Schwarzer Wald, dein Schatten (SATB)
13. Nein, Geliebter, setze dich (SA)
14. Flammenauge, dunkles Haar (SATB)
15. Zum Schluß (SATB)

Christiane Libor soprano
Jasmin Etminan alto
Ferdinand Dehner tenor
Stephan Klemm bass
Yuriko Watanabe and Hartmut Höll piano

Event organised by the Friends of the Karlsruhe University of Music e. V.

about this event

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 
Liebesliederwalzer (Love songs waltzes) for 4 voice parts and piano 4 hands op. 52
World premiere of 10 of the 18 Liebeslieder-Walzer op. 52 at the first museum concert of the winter season in Karlsruhe with Clara Schumann and Hofkapellmeister Hermann Levi, piano, and 4 soloists from the Karlsruhe Court Opera on 6 October 1869.

Wolfgang Rihm (1952-2024)
Mehrere kurze Walzer für Klavier zu vier Händen (Several short waltzes for piano four hands)

"I wrote these little waltzes with one of my two free left hands, usually between door and door or two meals
- or in between or during nothing at all. Often fasting too, yes. They are mostly meant as souvenirs. Or were handed out for the tasting of composing guests who had just arrived. Almost all of them were created in Rome in 1979, when I was a scholarship holder at the Villa Massimo. Some stragglers owe their existence to entirely similar ephemeral modes of creation and unworthy of mention. Whereby I each time a great desire to create with artistic understanding and and yet void. That's rare, isn't it!"

Wolfgang Rihm (1952-2024)
Brahmsliebewalzer for piano (1985)

Wolfgang Rihm wrote the short piano piece in 1985 after reading Richard Heuberger's "Memories of Johannes
Brahms", it bears the performance instructions: "Not fast, rather heavy, often dull, never cheerful, perhaps
sullen, sour, but serious".

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
„Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer“ for 4 voice parts and piano 4 hands op. 65 (1874/75)
The world premiere of the New Liebeslieder Waltzes op. 65 took place in a symphony concert at the Museum in Karlsruhe on 8 May 1875. Soloists from the Karlsruhe Court Opera sang, accompanied on the piano
by Johannes Brahms and court conductor Otto Dessoff.