This double CD combines Brahms' Romances, op. 33 with Romances from Ludwig Tieck’s ‘Magelone’. The first CD offers the song cycle without the prose text, the second CD presents a sensitive abridgement of Tieck’s text by Hans-Jürgen Schatz. With these romances, Brahms reached a new compositional level. The songs seemingly move completely independently of external influences; Schubert’s songs might have acted as models in many passages. Sometimes, people even speak freely about ‘Brahms’ sole opera’.