Credits:
Thomas Ad
Description:
This is a series of songs composed by Brahms in his 20s and 30s to poems from the novel "The Love Story between the Beautiful Magellone and Peter, Count of Provence" by Tieck, which is based on a medieval German knight's tale. This is a piece that is full of youthful freshness and enjoys the lyrically beautiful voice of John Chest, a young American baritone who has been well received at the Glyndebourne Music Festival and Proms. He is accompanied by the Brazilian pianist Marcelo Amarau, acclaimed in the U.S. as "a superlative accompanist. Naxos Japan