Screwing with Brahms

(needs a faster tempo than Shaw's)

High time we started adding more classical to the rep again. I adore this piece, one of my two favorite Brahms choral works (the other one below). B-flat major Brahms is special: it's the key Brahms most often goes to when he wants the music to glow. It's the key of the Handel Variations, Haydn Variations, Second Piano Concerto, 'Denn Alles Fleisch' from the German Requiem, the first Sextet and the Third String Quartet.

...But it's written for men and too low for a mixed chorus. I'm not sure Brahms will forgive me for transposing it to E-Flat Major. And frankly, I'm not sure I care.


"Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang" for women only. This one can never be transposed.