Ulrich Eisenlohr - Complete Songs Vol. 5 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For Brahms, folk songs were sources of musical inspiration, not subjects for academic study. The songs from Books 6 and 7 of the Deutsche Volkslieder exemplify how Brahms' distinctive and expressive accompaniments brought unique qualities to these songs, how he intensified certain verses to draw out their power, or allowed the piano it's own revealing melodic phrases. In Book 7 the songs are divided between a lead singer and a chorus, adding fresh musical possibilities. In the Volkskinderlieder ('Children's Folk Songs') Brahms' economy and deftness turn lullabies into works of art.

Brahms was opposed to the Lied cultivated by the 'New German' circle of composers around Franz Liszt who developed it into a highly artificial art form. In the books of the 49 Deutsche Volkslieder Brahms discovered a repository of dialogue songs, narrative ballads, laments, and songs of disputation and love, some tragic, others comic, that appealed to his need for authenticity. The book from which he sourced the songs had a printed text and melody, so Brahms' artistic contribution lay in his richly varied piano accompaniments which subtly comment, heighten, inflect or expand on the texts. The first volume in this series is on Naxos 8.574268.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP. Unbound is the third album of the Swedish death metal band Merciless. It was released in 1994. The cover artwork is created by Kristian Wåhlin. Merciless is a Swedish extreme metal band. The band was formed during the summer of 1986 in Strängnäs, Sweden. They were inspired by the early fast-playing bands such as Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Bathory. First they did some local gigs as Obsessed and Black Mass but changed their name to Merciless in early 1987.