Brahms

Die schöne Magelone

John Chest (baritone),

Marcelo Amaral (piano)

Alpha Classics ALPHA 431 57:23 mins ★ow to present Brahms’s only song cycle? Unlike Schubert’s Winterreise there’s no clear-cut narrative, and early on a tradition arose of embedding the 15 songs to texts drawn from Ludwig Tieck’s re-told tale of love