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	5186045
		Rhapsody for Alto, Male Chorus and Orchestra, Op.
		In the final part, the male choir at last enters, not only introducing a new quality of tone, but also collectively providing the alto solo with a sense of security; the glowing key of C major is chosen, a hymnic tone is tapped.
		Alto Yvonne Naef’s rich, dusky voice is just right for the Alto Rhapsody, and the male choir matches her in spirit and style.”
	www.pentatonemusic.com /pags/5186045.htm (1278 words)

	Alto
		alto or contralto is a singer with a vocal range somewhere between a tenor and a mezzo-soprano.
		Alto pieces were originally written in the alto clef, but now use the treble clef.
		The word, "alto", is often applied to instruments to indicate their range in relation to other instruments of the same group.
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	classical music - andante - alto rhapsody: the viola finally comes of age as a solo instrument
		classical music - andante - alto rhapsody: the viola finally comes of age as a solo instrument
		Alto Rhapsody: The Viola Finally Comes of Age as a Solo Instrument
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	BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody etc Helen Watts [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- July2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Alto Rhapsody and Nanie were themselves first issued on Decca in 1967 and Shirley-Quirk’s songs on Argo in 1971.
		Maybe the strings are a touch metallic in the Alto Rhapsody — a fault of the recording I think rather than the Suisse Romande — but there is rich compensation in the shape of Ansermet’s acute Brahmsian instincts (both here and in the still undervalued Nanie he displays a rich palette of gifts).
		The Alto Rhapsody strikes me as maintaining an inherently honest balance between the exterior and interior elements of the score.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/July02/Brahms_Alto.htm (425 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sym 2/Alto Rhap: Music: Johannes Brahms,Claudio Abbado,Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,Marjana Lipovsek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Second Symphony is the most sunny and lyrical of the four, and Abbado seems to have found a way to make the melodies sing while keeping the music moving along nicely.
		The coupling, a marvelous Alto Rhapsody, features Marjana Lipovsek, a terrific singer who doesn't seem to get her due on recordings.
		The beautifully-sung Alto Rhapsody is a great bonus, and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn (that isn't really by Haydn) is also richly played.
	www.amazon.ca /Sym-Alto-Rhap-Johannes-Brahms/dp/B000001GB5 (450 words)

	Amazon.com: Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; Nänie; Gesang der Parzen; Schicksalslied: Music: Johannes Brahms,Robert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; Nänie; Gesang der Parzen; Schicksalslied
		Alto Rhapsody, Song of Destiny, Nanie and Song of the Fates in Full Score by Johannes Brahms
		Alto Rhapsody, for alto, male chorus & orchestra, Op.
	www.amazon.com /Brahms-Rhapsody-Gesang-Parzen-Schicksalslied/dp/B000003CV2 (798 words)

	CHORAL REVIEW: Tasty B&B By Lisa Hirsch (San Francisco Choral Society, Wendy Hillhouse, April 3, 2004)
		The overall excellence of the group itself was clear from the first note to the last, in their firm tone and good diction, their responsiveness to director Robert Geary, their attention to the music and to each other.
		And the program itself was attractive, combining Brahms's Alto Rhapsody (for male chorus, with soloist Wendy Hillhouse), Ave Maria (for female chorus), and Schicksalslied (Song of Fate) with Beethoven's 1807 Mass in C. The three Brahms works are done less often than his Requiem, but they're cut from the same musical cloth.
		Hillhouse returned as the splendid alto soloist in the Beethoven, where she was joined by soprano Jennifer Brody, tenor Jeffrey Barnett, and bass-baritone Boyd Jarrell.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/sfchoralsoc_4_6_04.php (606 words)

	Alto Saxophone Concertos
		Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra Alto Saxophone and Piano.
		Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra By Bassett.
		Concerto For Alto Saxophone And Orchestra By Donald Martino.
	www.childrensmusicworkshop.com /sheetmusic/altosaxconcertos.htm (313 words)

	Lisa Drew, Contralto - Biography
		Drew was the alto soloist with the Berkshire Choral Festival performing the “Brahm's Alto Rhapsody” and Horatio Parker's “Hora Novissima” amazing the audience with her rich voice.
		She was also the alto soloist in the “Bach B Minor Mass” with the Minnesota Valley Sommarfest.
		Lisa is looking forward to her fifth season with The Rose Ensemble, is the alto soloist at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis under the direction of Philip Brunelle, and is a founding member of the new vocal ensemble, The Ensemble of the North based in Minneapolis.
	www.killeralto.com /bio.htm (396 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		The Alto Rhapsody, on the other hand, has strong biographical implications related to a crisis in its composer’s life.
		But first, the origin of the text: In 1777, the 27-year-old Goethe was already among Europe’s most influential literary figures, his celebrity achieved two years earlier with his novel about unrequited passion, The Sorrows of Young Werther, which would become a sort of bible of despair for young lovers.
		The declamatory opening of the Rhapsody, in C minor, sets the physical scene, man alone amid menacing nature, with nothing but contempt for his fellow men.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=45 (660 words)

	Opera singer Marietta Simpson joining UCI orchestra for Brahms' Alto Rhapsody 05/29/03
		The mezzo-soprano will sing the "Alto Rhapsody" by Johannes Brahms, joined by a men's chorus and the orchestra, under the direction of Stephen Tucker.
		Despite having sung on numerous occasions the "Alto Rhapsody," Simpson looks forward to another performance of it.
		Simpson will come to UCI from Denver, where she sang the alto solo in the fourth and fifth movements of Mahler's monumental, six-movement Third Symphony.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Bstories/may29/simpson.html (849 words)

	THCS Presents Bach and Brahms
		Goethe's poem was written after a visit to the Harz Mountains in 1777; there he met a correspondent of his, a misanthropic young fellow named Plessing, who had withdrawn from the world into the solitude of nature.
		The harmonic and rhythmic agitation of this section yields magically at the entrance of the men's voices and a turn to a consoling C major and a warmly ardent melody praying for the reconciliation of the wanderer.
		Upcoming performances include a solo recital at ISU in September 1997 and an engagement as soloist with the Amarillo, Texas Philharmonic in a performance of the Brahms Alto Rhapsody.
	mama.indstate.edu /users/swarens/bandb.htm (1143 words)

	Music Program Notes - G
		He was not able to see that, as he was diagnosed in 1937 with a brain tumor and did not survive the surgery.
		The rhapsody is programmatic in a general impressionistic sort of way, so that the individual listener can read into the m;usic such episodes as his imagination pictures for him.
		The third movement is based on the interplay of 6/8 and ¾ meters in consecutive and contiguous relationships, and features the soli alto sax and bassoon in frequent metric opposition to the prevailing rhythmic background.
	www.windband.org /foothill/pgm_note/notes_g.htm (4958 words)

	Guardian \| Brahms: Rinaldo; Alto Rhapsody; Gesang der Parzen, Larsson/ Andersen/ Danish National Choir and Symphony ...
		Brahms: Rinaldo; Alto Rhapsody; Gesang der Parzen, Larsson/ Andersen/ Danish National Choir and Symphony Orch/ Albrecht
		Though Brahms never composed an opera, two of his early works give clues as to what might have been: the song-cycle Die Schone Magelone and the Cantata Rinaldo, both reflecting his dilemma on breaking off his engagement to Agathe von Siebold in 1859.
		It is very well coupled with two other Goethe settings by Brahms, the radiant Alto Rhapsody, with Anna Larsson the rich-toned soloist, and the greatest and darkest of his shorter choral works, Gesang der Parzen, Song of the Fates.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4991747-110760,00.html (460 words)

	MSC RHAPSODY: MSC Crociere
		La Rhapsody è stata battezzata il 30 marzo 1977 dalla principessa Grace Kelly di Monaco e ha iniziato la sua prestigiosa attività con una crociera inaugurale da New York il 2 aprile.
		I locali della Rhapsody si sviluppano su otto ponti differenti.
		All'interno della Rhapsody sono state allestite 382 cabine in grado di ospitare comodamente 850 passeggeri.
	www.crociereonline.net /navi/msc_rhapsody.htm (1023 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Brahms: Symphonies 1-4, etc / Escenbach, Houston SO at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And while there have been numerous box sets of Brahms' symphonies by many of the world's (and America's) great orchestras, perhaps the most interesting one was the one made for Virgin Classics in the early 1990s by the Houston Symphony Orchestra under its then-Music Director Christoph Eschenbach.
		53--Composed in 1870, the Alto Rhapsody is one of many short one-movement works for chorus and orchestra that Brahms composed in his time.
		All the symphonies and their four companions are given superb performances by the Houston Symphony under Eschenbach's taut direction (with alto vocalist Dunja Vejzovic and the Houston Symphony Men's Chorus featured in the Alto Rhapsody).
	www.epinions.com /content_110426885764 (1211 words)

	Variations on a Theme \| Romanticism from the canvas to the printing press to the opera house
		In the piano music, for example, which chronologically encircles his vocal output, the dividing lines beteen ballade and rhapsody, and capriccio and intermezzo, are vague, such terms refer more to expressive character than to musical form.
		As in other media, his most important development technique in the piano music is variation, whether used independently (simple melodic alteration and thematic cross-reference) or to create a large integrated cycle in which successive variations contain their own thematic transformation (as in the Handel Variations).
		Between these large choral works and the many a cappella ones showing his informed appreciation of Renaissance and Baroque polyphony (he was a diligent collector, scholar and editor of old music) stand the justly popular Zigeunerlieder (in modified gypsy style) and the landler-like Liebeslieder waltzes with piano accompaniment.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0126184/english/ebrahms.htm (366 words)

	William Primrose and Marian Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Biddulph Recordings is an offshoot of a famous violin shop in London, which began to acquire archive recordings of great string players such as Fritz Kreisler and William Primrose, and to release them on CD.
		They have outdone themselves this time, with an inspired pairing of performances by Primrose, the most renowned violist of the 20th century, and Marian Anderson, the greatest singer ever to come from the U.S. The Primrose recordings are the two Brahms viola sonatas, recorded in 1937 and 1946.
		Primrose, who epitomized Paul Doktor's doctrine of the viola as a "Bel Canto" instrument, found in Marian Anderson an ideal partner; the great songs of Brahms are transfigured by the remarkable intimacy of these two performers.
	members.aol.com /abelard2/marian.htm (205 words)

	Decca Music Group - New Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		2 Rhapsody for alto, chorus and orchestra, op.53
		This set also offers one of the few opportunities to hear the lovely voice of the American alto Lucretia West in the Alto Rhapsody.
		A suitable ending to the programme is to be found in the first-ever CD release of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, recorded in glorious mono sound.
	www.deccaclassics.com /newsandnewreleases/February2002/470254.html (136 words)

	YouTube - Brahms, Rhapsody for alto, Marian Anderson, end.
		YouTube - Brahms, Rhapsody for alto, Marian Anderson, end.
		To have the Alto Rhapsody AND Marian Anderson!
		We all know about miss Anderson from the history books, but hearing her sing the alto rhapsody with a great conductor and orchestra while in her prime is a real treat.
	www.youtube.com /?v=lAvX_UwmQzQ (319 words)

	lexphil.org \| The Lexington Philharmonic Online \| Lexington, Kentucky, USA
		Schicksalslied ("Song of Destiny") shares a number of similarities with two of his other choral works; tonight's Alto Rhapsody and the German Requiem.
		53 is another of Brahms' single movement choral works, but this one features the unique pairing of a rich alto solo voice against a four part, divided male chorus.
		The orchestration is set in pairs of winds and horns with string choir.
	www.lexphil.org /index.php?b=pn_mar06 (711 words)

	Amazon.de: Alto Rhapsody, Song of Destiny, Nanie and Song of the Fates in Full Score: English Books: Johannes Brahms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Amazon.de: Alto Rhapsody, Song of Destiny, Nanie and Song of the Fates in Full Score: English Books: Johannes Brahms
		The compositions of Johannes Brahms have never gone completely out of fashion, and for good reason; his is well-crafted music, romantic but never slushy, well considered, and important without being pompous.
		His orchestral songs, with the possible exception of the "Alto Rhapsody," are not nearly as well known as they deserve to be, and many people think of him primarily for his symphonies.
	www.amazon.de /Rhapsody-Destiny-Nanie-Fates-Score/dp/0486285286 (402 words)

	Palo Alto Online Palo Alto Weekly: Rhapsody in boots (September 8, 2006)
		The Palo Alto dancer is pretty darn modest about her elegance.
		All the while, they were moving in lines across the glossy floor at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Palo Alto.
		As a result, the lawyer from Palo Alto took off on dance-teaching tours in Australia, New Zealand, England, Wales and Canada.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/story.php?story_id=2580 (984 words)

	Classical Net Review - Brahms - Symphony #1, Alto Rhapsody
		The Swiss conductor was a dab hand at romantic masterpieces as his affinity with Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mozart is well known so it is interesting to have some idea of his Brahms.
		The Alto Rhapsody also receives a fine account but my favourite here still remains the radiant Kathleen Ferrier and Eduard van Beinum (available on Dutton).
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	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/a/ats43058a.html (228 words)

	Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
		Rhapsody In B Minor Op.79 No.1 [Brahms, Johannes]
		Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Variation Xviii
		Slavonic Rhapsody No.1 In D Op.45 No.1 [Dvorak, Antonin]
	www.musicroom.com /search.aspx?category_id=store1&searchtype=songtitle&kbid=1708&searchtext=Rhapsody (107 words)

	Great Releases
		‘Christa Ludwig’s glorious voice is heard here in a magnificent reading of the Alto Rhapsody, attractive and illuminating accounts of the Wesendonck-Lieder and a group of Mahler songs in which the beautifully restrained and poetical alternates with the grandly monumental, the infinitely touching with the gentle and ethereal.’ (The Gramophone)
		The recording has become a classic and Ludwig’s ‘Abscheulicher!’ is included here, alongside the Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, also recorded in 1962 and another soprano role but one perhaps wisely she did not go on to perform complete.
		Also on this newly remastered disc, Ludwig’s lovely voice is heard in Wagner’s Wesendock-Lieder, Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody and a group of songs by Mahler (three of the Rückert songs and two settings of texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn recorded in 1964).
	www.emiclassics.com /groc/releases16/wagner.html (245 words)

	Appian Publications and Recordings
		KATHLEEN FERRIER Brahms Alto Rhapsody & Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
		BRAHMS Rhapsody for contralto, male chorus and orchestra, Op.53
		Ferrier recorded the Alto Rhapsody for Decca in 1947 with Clemens Krauss; this Norwegian broadcast of two years later is to be preferred.
	www.aprrecordings.co.uk /apr2/showentry.php?id=62 (98 words)

	Gracenote: Search CDDB
		Hans Knappertsbusch / Brahms - Haydn variations, Alto Rhapsody & Overtures; Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
		George Gershwin / Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue - Manhattan Rhapsody - Un Americain A Paris - Cuban Overture - I Got Rhythm - Rabol - Fillon - Jazzogene
		Max Reger / Max Reger: Overture Op.120 - Rhapsody Op.147 - Suite Op.
	www.gracenote.com /music/search-adv.html?qdisc=Rhapsody-overture (144 words)

	Xiu-Ru Liu
		Concert soloist engagements have included Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Verdi's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Brahm's Alto Rhapsody, Handel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Bach's B Minor Mass, with U.S. and international symphony orchestras.
		Oratorio Appearances and Oratorio Concert (as Mezzo Soprano, Mezzo Contralto, or Alto Soloist)
		She has also performed as a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Verdi's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Brahm's Alto Rhapsody, Handel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Bach's B Minor Mass with symphony orchestras in the U.S. and abroad.
	www.pgh-net.com /xiu-ru (516 words)

	98.228: Brahms - Alto Rhapsody, Rinaldo / Schubert - Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
		Origin: Baden-Baden, September 1869, Premiere on March 3, 1870 in Jena with the Academic Choral Society under the direction of Ernst Naumann; the alto solo was sung by Pauline Viardot-Garcia.
		Upon filling in for a colleague at the Bayreuth Festpielen as Brangaene in 1994 under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, Lioba Braun began her international carreer as a Wagnerian singer (Milan, Dresden, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Vienna; Barcelona, Bayreuth, etc.).
		One of the highlights of her various engagements as a concert singer was the Mahler Series 2002 in Munich, where she sang Das Lied von der Erde with Lorin Maazel and the alto solo in the Third Symphony.
	www.pristineclassical.com /LargeWorks/Vocal/98-228.php (1027 words)

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