WIEGENLIED (GUTEN ABEND, GUTE NACHT) OP. 49, N°4

Created on 24/03/2005
Latest update on 04/09/2023

Artist: Frances Saville
Author: Johannes Brahms
Label: G&T
Year: 1902

First performed in Vienna in December 1869 by Louise Dustmann (vocal) and Clara Schumann (piano).

Covers:

1902:

Laura Hilgermann

1902:

Minnie Nast

1906:

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

1911:

Rinaldi's Italian Band

1912:

Elsie Baker

1914:

Julia Culp [de Hollandse nachtegaal (Dutch Nightingale)]

1937:

Elisabeth Schumann

1941:

Bing Crosby [as Brahms' Lullaby]

1941:

Glenn Miller [as Cradle Song]

1947:

Louis Armstrong [idem]

1947:

Nat King Cole [idem; saved up till 1990 cd Cole, Kids and Christmas!]

1947:

Spike Jones [as Christmas Cradle Song]

1955:

Mantovani [as Brahms' Cradle Song]

1958:

Esterella [as Steeds Denk Ik Aan Jou]

1960:

Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band [n°2 NL]

1960:

Slim Whitman [as Brahms' Lullaby]

1961:

Don Kosaken Chor [als Guten Abend, gut Nacht]

1963:

Muriel Smith [as Lullaby]

1964:

Hank Snow & Chet Atkins [as Brahms' Lullaby]

1966:

Poppies [as Lullaby Of Love]

1967:

Rocco Granata [as Guten Abend gute Nacht]

1968:

Elvis Presley [as Five Sleepy Heads]

1968:

Wind In The Willows [intro of My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died; band with Deborah Harry]

1969:

Esther & Abi Ofarim [as Layla Tov]

1972:

Frank Sinatra [as The Cradle Song]

1978:

Roger Whittaker [as Guten Abend gute Nacht]

1979:

Nana Mouskouri [idem]

1985:

Statler Brothers [as Brahms' Bethlehem Lullaby]

1990:

Nena [as Guten Abend gute Nacht]

1994:

Kenny G [als Brahms' Lullaby]

1996:

Celine Dion [idem]

1996:

Linda Ronstadt [idem]

2000:

Three Tenors

2006:

Freddy Quinn [as Guten Abend gute Nacht]

2008:

André Rieu

Not to be confused with Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein (see there).

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