Category: HIGH SCHOOL CHOIRS
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Arranger: NA
Publisher: National
Edition: WHC-48
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Robert Sieving
Apollo High School, St. Cloud 1996
R&R Chair High School Choirs
The second of Brahms’ Quartette fur vier Solostimmen, the texture of this exciting work is often a double duet with the soprano and alto responding to the tenor and bass in a question/answer musical “flirtation.” The German text is not easy, but comes quickly. The English translation is accurate. A good pianist is a must, particularly for the animato ending