Brahms: Die Schöne Magelone
Label: Ars Produktion Catalog: ARS38497 Format: CD Dominik Wörner (baritone); Masato Suzuki fortepiano)Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was an early romantic German poet, translator of Shakespeare and Cervantes and also known as a versatile editor of folklore and fairy tales. His "Story of Magelone the Fair and Peter Count of Provence" is based on a French knight novel, translated in 1527 by Veit Warbeck into German. It was published in 1797 in the collection of his fairy tales. Tieck included 18 poems in the story, of which Johannes Brahms composed 15 songs under the title of "Romances of L. Tieck´s Magelone". The first four songs were composed in July 1861, the next three in May 1862 and the rest was completed by 1869. The cycle is dedicated to German baritone, Julius Stockhausen, who premiered two songs in 1865 and later the complete cycle. Price: $27.98 |