John Chest, Marcelo Amaral – Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:21 minutes | 941 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Alpha and the Festival of Aix-en-Provence continue their Young Talents series, in which Laureates of the Académie of the Aix Festival are each accorded an album. The American baritone John Chest enjoys a brilliant career that has already led him to Glyndebourne Festival and the BBC Proms. In partnership with the Brazilian pianist Marcelo Amaral, he presents Die schöne Magelone by Johannes Brahms. Among all the wealth of Lieder that Brahms composed, this is his only real song cycle. Brahms had known these popular tales since his childhood, but it was thanks to Schumann that he discovered the novel published in 1797 by Ludwig Tieck, entitled “The Love Story of the Fair Magelone and Count Peter of Provence”. The work is representative of the poetic, idealised reinvention of the Middle Ages so characteristic of German romanticism: stories of star-crossed love, that usually end happily… ‘What strikes the listener most of all is the song cycle’s epic scale – it is a veritable pocket opera, supported by pianistic writing of great complexity,’ writes Timothée Picard in the libretto accompanying this disc – which is illustrated by an original design by Maia Flore, a laurate photographer of the HSBC Foundation: her poetic universe has already featured in the preceding number of the series, “Black is the colour” (debut album of Anna Stéphany). – Alpha Classics
Tracklist:
1-01. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – I. Keinen hat es noch gereut (Allegro) (03:53)
1-02. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – II. Traun! Bogen und Pfeil sind gut fur den Feind (Kraftig) (01:46)
1-03. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – III. Sind es Schmerzen, sind es Freuden (Andante) (05:28)
1-04. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – IV. Liebe kam aus fernen Landen (Andante) (04:40)
1-05. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – V. So willst du des Armen (Allegro) (01:45)
1-06. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – VI. Wie soll ich die Freude (Allegro) (06:20)
1-07. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – VII. War es dir (Lebhaft) (03:09)
1-08. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – VIII. Wir mussen uns trennen (Andante) (04:44)
1-09. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – IX. Ruhe, Sussliebchen (Langsam) (05:17)
1-10. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – X. Verzweiflung (Allegro) (02:41)
1-11. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – XI. Wie schnell verschwindet (Etwas langsam) (04:06)
1-12. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – XII. Muss es eine Trennung geben (Poco Andante) (03:25)
1-13. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – XIII. Sulima (Zart, heimlich) (02:00)
1-14. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – XIV. Wie froh und frisch (Lebhaft) (02:57)
1-15. John Chest & Marcelo Amaral – XV. Treue liebe dauert lange (Ziemlich Langsam) (05:03)
