Wanderer Without Words

Liszt, Franz, Mahler, Gustav, różni kompozytorzy, Schubert, Franz, Wagner, Richard

Journaux, Juliette

Alpha 984

For her first recital, Juliette Journaux evokes the figure of the Wanderer: a wayfarer, a traveller, a man who walks alone, without apparent purpose. He confronts a Nature that is beyond him and his deepest thoughts. The wanderer's drifting is also inseparable from the dream, the acceptance of a dilated time. Musically, one immediately thinks of the worlds of Schubert, Mahler and Wagner... Another aspect of this project is Juliette Journaux's passion for transcription. In tackling the difficult task of transcribing vocal or orchestral works for solo piano, she draws on her knowledge of the orchestra and the operatic voice thanks to her three masters degrees in piano, vocal accompaniment and voice direction from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris... The album opens with Schubert's Lied Der Wanderer in a piano transcription by Liszt, followed by his three Klavierstücke D.946; then comes her transcription of Mahler's last two Lieder eines fahrendes Gesellen, full of pain and sorrow. She also evokes Wagner and his opera Siegfried where Wotan becomes the Wanderer. The farewell and renunciation of the world that is the Abschied from Mahler's Song of the Earth concludes the programme.

YB:https://youtu.be/CqVmn_TuQgs

Works:

• Liszt: Der Wanderer (No. 11 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558)
• Mahler: Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde)
• Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)
• Schubert: In Der Ferne, D957 No. 6
• Schubert: Klavierstücke (3), D946
• Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II 'Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', D768
• Wagner: Mein Schlaf ist Träumen (from Siegfried)

CD x 1

Alpha

10/2/23

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