Schumann / Brahms / Schubert / Mendelssohn: From Solo Till Quartet
11/30/1993, 17 Tracks, 1:07:07
Featuring
Märta Schéle
Edith Thallaug
Gösta Winbergh
Erland Hagegård
Lucia Negro
Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms
Franz Schubert
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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Composition History
Schumann's Der Contrabandiste, included as an annex to Op. 74, was composed at the same time as the other songs, possibly to give the bass voice more prominence.
Composition History
Johannes Brahms composed the four duets of Op. 28 between 1860 and 1862, during his second creative period.
Composition History
Robert Schumann's Spanisches Liederspiel for four singers and piano, a leading work in the vocal quartet genre, was composed in 1849.
Composer Biography
The year 1849 was a peak in Robert Schumann's ten-year cycles of creative activity, with another notable peak occurring in 1840.
Compositional Technique
In Robert Schumann's Spanisches Liederspiel, the fourth song features a piano 'accompaniment' so prominent it could almost be a piano piece with an optional vocal part.
Composition History
Franz Schubert's Der Hochzeitsbraten, written in his last year of life, was inspired by Anton Fischer's comic terzet Die Advocaten and was likely performed as a grand finale at the last Schubertiad.
Compositional Technique
Der Contrabandiste is unique in Schumann's oeuvre for being a truly comic song, with its text's origin unknown but likely not chosen by Schumann himself.
