Johannes Brahms - Three Songs for 6 part Choir, Op. 42 (1861)

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.

3 Gesänge für 6St. Chör a cappella (1859-1861)

1. Abendständchen. Langsam (G major)
Clemens Brentano (1778–1842)
2. Vineta. Con moto (B major)
Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827) (2:04)
3. Darthulas Grabesgesang. Moderato, ma non troppo (G minor)
James Macpherson (1736–1796) as Ossian (4:41)

Kansas-City Chorale conducted by Charles Bruffy