Für hohe Stimme und Klavier / for high Voice and Piano-For high voice and piano. The collection Jean Sibelius 15 Selected Songs can be understood as an introduction to the Finnish composer's extensive and highly varied lieder output. Selected from various collections the songs represent a stylistically broad spectrum. The compilation comprises only lieder that were originally written in Swedish and provides singable German and English translations that date from the time of the first publications. The two Shakespeare Lieder op. 60 at the end of the volume were based on Swedish texts and written for a staging of the comedy Twelfth Night in Helsinki in 1909.

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. The 'Deutsche Volkslieder” WoO by Johannes Brahms were published in altogether seven books in 1894. The first six books each comprised seven songs for voice and piano accompaniment, and Book VII contained the subsequently composed songs nos. 43 to 49 for four-part chorus and piano ad libitum. Brahms had completed his compilation of the books in the winter of 1893/94- however, most of the songs were written earlier. Brahms' primary text source was the two-volume collection of 'Deutsche Volkslieder mit ihren Original-Weisen” (German Folksongs with their Original Melodies) published in 1838/1840 by Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio./ Répertoire / Voix Haute et Piano