Brahms's "Die schöne Magelone" combines the nuanced poetry of Ludwig Tieck with the 'folk idiom' that Brahms highly valued.
Performer Biography
Pianist Boris Kusnezow, born in Moscow, achieved his first major success by winning the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition) in 2009.
Compositional Technique
Brahms's "Die schöne Magelone" cycle features vocal pieces of almost operatic scale, yet creates an illusion of great simplicity.
Historical Context
The text for Brahms's "Die schöne Magelone" comes from Ludwig Tieck's romances, which were originally part of his "Romance of Magelone the Fair and Peter Count of Provence," a narrative material tracing back to a French prose novel from the late Middle Ages.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded at Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from September 21-24, 2016.
Composition History
Johannes Brahms's song cycle, "Die schöne Magelone" (The Fair Magelone), Op. 33, was composed between 1861 and 1869.
Performer Biography
Baritone Nikolay Borchev, born in Pinsk, Belarus, began his musical training at age seven in piano, flute, and organ in Moscow.
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