Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon and pianist Ryan McCullough perform Johannes Brahms' 15 Romanzen aus Ludwig Tiecks 'Magelone', Op. 33. These fifteen songs, presented in the original German alongside a modern English adaptation of Tiecks' narrative, are a rarely-heard masterpiece tracing the medieval adventures of Count Peter of Provence and Princess Magelone of Naples. The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards instrument used in this performance, a piano built in 1857 by Johann Baptist Streicher, represents the maker favored by Brahms throughout this period in his career.