Brahms / Schubert / Wolf

Johannes Brahms · 2000

76 min · 24 tracks

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Elevation

Our rating, out of 100 — and why.

AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.

70 /100

Treeline

Higher than 50% of albums we've rated

Strong, contrasting song cycles and settings carry the music, but the composer-by-composer blocks, repeated Mignon texts and closing conversation make this feel assembled rather t…

What we noticed

The first eleven tracks are Brahms songs, with the six folksongs followed by five songs; the album then shifts to Schubert.
Schubert's Mignon songs precede a block of Faust songs, and four Mignon settings return near the end in a separate block.
The final track is a conversation rather than a song, interrupting the sequence of performed lieder.

Composition 25% of the score: 8/10
Craft 20% of the score: 7/10
Durability 25% of the score: 7/10
Distinctiveness 18% of the score: 5/10
Sequencing 12% of the score: 5/10

Influence 2/10

Little footprint beyond its audience. Reported but not counted — how far a record travelled describes its reception rather than the record, and a newer release has had less time to travel than an older one.

Tracklist

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1 Six Folksongs: Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr, WoO. 33 no. 5 1:10
2 Six Folksongs: Die Versuchung, WoO. 32 no. 19 3:40
3 Six Folksongs: Die Trauernde, op. 7 no. 5 1:37
4 Six Folksongs: Schwesterlein, WoO. 33 no. 15 2:25
5 Six Folksongs: In stiller Nacht, WoO. 33 no. 42 2:27
6 Six Folksongs: Volkslied, op. 7 no. 4 1:07
7 Five Songs: Trost in Tränen, op. 48 no. 5 3:31
8 Five Songs: Unbewegte laue Luft, op. 57 no. 8 3:02
9 Five Songs: Ständchen, op. 106 no. 1 1:22
10 Five Songs: Es träumte mir, op. 57 no. 3 1:53
11 Five Songs: Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen, op. 32 no. 2 2:42
12 Songs Based on Poems from "Wilhelm Meister": Lied der Mignon ("Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt"), D877 no. 4 2:25
13 Songs Based on Poems from "Wilhelm Meister": Lied der Mignon ("Heiß mich nicht reden"), D877 no. 2 3:09
14 Songs Based on Poems from "Wilhelm Meister": Lied der Mignon ("So lasst mich scheinen"), D877 no. 3 3:06
15 Songs Based on Poems from "Wilhelm Meister": Mignon ("Kennst du das Land"), D321 4:00
16 Songs Based on Passages from "Faust": Der König in Thule", D367 3:08
17 Songs Based on Passages from "Faust": Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 3:37
18 Songs Based on Passages from "Faust": Gretchen im Zwinger", D564 3:09
19 Songs Based on Passages from "Faust": Szene aus "Faust", D. 126 6:38
20 Songs Based on Poems from "Wilhelm Meister": Mignon I ("Heiß mich nicht reden") 2:54
21 Songs Based on Poems from "Wilhelm Meister": Mignon II ("Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt") 2:31
22 Songs Based on Poems from "Wilhelm Meister": Mignon III ("So lasst mich scheinen") 3:01
23 Songs Based on Poems from "Wilhelm Meister": Mignon IV ("Kennst du das Land") 6:04
24 Irmgard Seefried In Conversation With John Amis 7:54

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