Three Brahms Songs

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EM1206
Arranger/Editor
Alexander Lotzow
Composer
BRAHMS, JOHANNES
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[Solo Guitar]

1. Lamentation
op. 69/2

2. Your black eye
op. 59/8

3. In still night
WoO 33/42, 34/8


The sequence of songs by Johannes Brahms reflected on the guitar in this edition enables them to be presented as a small, approximately 12-minute triptych about grief and consolation; each of the pieces can also stand on its own.

A successively enriched, ever more urgent lament , in Brahms' Songs and Gesänge op. 69 the second of this title, stands at the beginning. Your blue eye from the Songs and Gesänge op. 59, which in a strange way seems to hold ready at the same time soothing coolness and warmth , replies to you with a rather direct transcription of the original movement and then with a transfiguration in tremolo. Finally, Brahms' choral and solo version of this song takes up the theme of In Stiller Nacht . "Klage" has become something external, sounds like a singing from afar and opens up a final perspective.

The arrangements are accompanied by an essay on the history and aesthetics of "Brahms on the Guitar".

Alexander Lotzow
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Arranger/Editor Alexander Lotzow
Composer BRAHMS, JOHANNES
Availability Available
TAB/Notation Music Notation Only
Level of Difficulty 4
Description
1. Lamentation
op. 69/2

2. Your black eye
op. 59/8

3. In still night
WoO 33/42, 34/8


The sequence of songs by Johannes Brahms reflected on the guitar in this edition enables them to be presented as a small, approximately 12-minute triptych about grief and consolation; each of the pieces can also stand on its own.

A successively enriched, ever more urgent lament , in Brahms' Songs and Gesänge op. 69 the second of this title, stands at the beginning. Your blue eye from the Songs and Gesänge op. 59, which in a strange way seems to hold ready at the same time soothing coolness and warmth , replies to you with a rather direct transcription of the original movement and then with a transfiguration in tremolo. Finally, Brahms' choral and solo version of this song takes up the theme of In Stiller Nacht . "Klage" has become something external, sounds like a singing from afar and opens up a final perspective.

The arrangements are accompanied by an essay on the history and aesthetics of "Brahms on the Guitar".

Alexander Lotzow
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