Most Members will know Brahms' two sets of 18 and 15 Liebeslieder Waltzes, for vocal quartet and four hands at the piano.
Brahms was so good at writing for women's voices in particular! In the decade between 1870 and 1879 he brought forth one masterpiece after another: vocal quartets, vocal duets, not to mention almost innumerable Lieder.
In the example we present to-day, though, the very apex of his vocal style is reached. It is we think a supreme masterpiece of Western music; and the performance here could not be bettered. Do other Members agree? We hasten to add that the reproduction is not "high fidelity"; it comes from an old 78, but is nonetheless quite listenable.
Here is a link to the file:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bt4mfaIts name is BrahmsWomen78.MP3 and its size 4,723,288 bytes.
