Curved Air presents:

 

Sung text from Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, a setting of verses from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Harzreise im Winter:

Aber abseits wer ist’s?
Im Gebüsch verliert sich sein Pfad;
hinter ihm schlagen die Sträuche zusammen,
das Gras steht wieder auf,
die Öde verschlingt ihn.

Ach, wer heilet die Schmerzen
dess, dem Balsam zu Gift ward?
Der sich Menschenhaß
aus der Fülle der Liebe trank!
Erst verachtet, nun ein Verächter,
zehrt er heimlich auf
seinen eigenen Wert
In ungenügender Selbstsucht.

Ist auf deinem Psalter,
Vater der Liebe, ein Ton
seinem Ohre vernehmlich,
so erquicke sein Herz!
Öffne den umwölkten Blick
über die tausend Quellen
neben dem Durstenden
in der Wüste!

[But who is that apart?
His path disappears in the bushes;
behind him the branches spring together;
the grass stands up again;
the wasteland engulfs him.

Ah, who heals the pains
of him for whom balsam turned to poison?
Who drank hatred of man
from the abundance of love?
First scorned, now a scorner,
he secretly feeds on
his own merit,
in unsatisfying egotism.

If there is on your psaltery,[3]
Father of love, one note
his ear can hear,
then refresh his heart!
Open his clouded gaze
to the thousand springs
next to him who thirsts
in the wilderness!]

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Playlist:

    Time: July 25 - 11:00:00 am
  • Brahms: Symphony No.1, Tragic Overture & Alto Rhapsody

    Otto Klemperer & Philharmonia Orchestra, “Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro”

    from Brahms: Symphony No.1, Tragic Overture & Alto Rhapsody

    Warner Classics - 1999

  • Time: July 25 - 11:15:00 am
  • Tamás Vásáry, Thomas Brandis, & Ottomar Borowitzky, “Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26, III. Scherzo. Poco allegro”

    from Johannes Brahms: Kammermusik

    Deutsche Grammophon - 1983

  • Time: July 25 - 11:27:00 am
  • Brahms: Works for Solo Piano

    Julius Katchen, “Variations On an Original Theme in D, Op. 21, No. 1”

    from Brahms: Works for Solo Piano

    Decca Music Group Ltd. - 1997

  • Time: July 25 - 11:47:00 am
  • Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Haydn Variations Etc.

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Bernard Haitink, “Tragic Overture, in D Minor, Op. 81”

    from Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Haydn Variations Etc.

    Decca Music Group Ltd. - 1993

  • Time: July 25 - 12:01:00 pm
  • Brahms: Symphony No.1, Tragic Overture & Alto Rhapsody

    Christa Ludwig with Otto Klemperer & Philharmonia Orchestra, “Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53”

    from Brahms: Symphony No.1, Tragic Overture & Alto Rhapsody

    Warner Classics - 1999

  • Time: July 25 - 12:15:00 pm
  • Karl Leister & Jorg Demus, “Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120”

    from Johannes Brahms: Kammermusik

    Deutsche Grammophon - 1983

  • Time: July 25 - 12:35:00 pm
  • Amadeus Quartet, “String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36, I. Allegro non troppo”

    from Johannes Brahms: Kammermusik

    Deutsche Grammophon - 1983

  • Time: July 25 - 12:49:00 pm
  • Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)

    Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, New Philharmonia Chorus, Ileana Cotrubas & Hermann Prey, “Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45: VII. Selig Sind Die Toten, Die In Dem Herren Sterben”

    from Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)

    Sony Classical - 1977

    Curved Air    July 25th, 2023

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