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Following the success of his first volume of Liebeslieder-Walzer of 1869, Brahms set another 14 songs to the same poetry from Polydora, the 1855 collection of German folk-poems and love-songs assembled by George Friedrich Daumer (1800-1875) plus a conclusion set to a poem of Goethe - "Zum Schluss". Composed from 1869 through 1874, the second volume likewise features numbers for solo voices placed between the 4-voiced settings. The first performance was given in Karlsruhe on May 8, 1875 of nine selections featuring four vocalists accompanied by Otto Dessoff and the composer on the piano. Conductor Ernst Rudorff persuaded Brahms to orchestrate the accompaniment for No.9 (plus 8 numbers from the earlier Op.52 set) for a concert given at Berlin's Hochschule on March 19, 1870. Offered here is Richard W Sargeant Jr's thoroughly researched, meticulously edited and engraved vocal score, including variants. Brahms' own earlier variant of the ninth song is present along with the final version of 1875. This… Read More
