Mintel Archive of Recordings

The Richard and Judith Mintel Archive of Recordings

  
  • About
    • Contents Summary
    • Thomas Wikman, Conductor and Keyboard Artist
    • Richard Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer
    • Judith Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer
    • Josephine ("Josey") Mintel, Musician and Archivist
      • Young Serbs and Albanians Brought Together Through Art
    • Recording & Archiving Philosophy and Techniques
    • Radio Broadcaster Information
  • Archive
    • Collection One
    • Collection Two
    • Collection Three
    • Collection Four
    • Collection Five
    • Collection Six
    • Collection Seven
    • Collection Eight
    • Collection Nine
  • News & Reviews
  • Music Samples
    • WFMT Tribute to Richard Walter Mintel
    • Henry Purcell
    • Advent and Christmas Music for Choir
    • Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah
    • Handel's Saul Acts I, II, III
    • Johannes Brahms
    • Franz Joseph Haydn
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Georg Philipp Telemann
    • George Frideric Handel
    • Liturgical Music
    • Gregorian Chant
    • Music for Brass
    • Music for Strings
    • Music for Woodwinds
    • Music for Orchestra
    • Grand Teton Music Festival
  • Resources
    • Featured Artists and Organizations
    • Commercial CDs
    • Links to the WFMT Studs Terkel Archive
  • Contact

Johannes Brahms

Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Opus 53

Karen Brunssen, Mezzo-soprano
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
The New Oratorio Singers Men’s chorus

English translation:
But who is that apart?
His path disappears in the bushes;
behind him the branches spring together;
the grass stands up again;
the wasteland engulfs him.
Ah, who heals the pains
of him for whom balsam turned to poison?
Who drank hatred of man
from the abundance of love?
First scorned, now a scorner,
he secretly feeds on
his own merit,
in unsatisfying egotism.
If there is on your psaltery,
Father of love, one note
his ear can hear,
then refresh his heart!
Open his clouded gaze
to the thousand springs
next to him who thirsts
in the wilderness!

In This Section

  • WFMT Tribute to Richard Walter Mintel
  • Advent and Christmas Music for Choir
  • Henry Purcell
  • Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah
  • Handel’s Saul Acts I, II, III
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Liturgical Music
  • Gregorian Chant
  • Music for Brass
  • Music for Strings
  • Music for Woodwinds
  • Music for Orchestra
  • Grand Teton Music Festival
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