Performer: Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2020
Size: 543 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Ravel: Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis (No. 2 from Trois chansons, M69)
02. Bernstein: Silhouette (Galilee)
03. Messiaen: Bonjour toi, colombe verte
04. Fauré: Paradis (No. 1 from La chanson d’Eve, Op. 95)
05. Debussy: Apparition – song (1884)
06. Lesur: Ce qu’Adam dit à Ève
07. Stravinsky: Pastorale
Wolf, H: Goethe-Lieder
08. XXVI. Die Spröde
09. XXVII. Die Bekehrte
10. Brahms: Salamander, Op. 107 No. 2
11. Reimann, A: Gib mir den Apfel
12. Britten: A Poison Tree (Blake)
13. Pfitzner: Röschen biß den Apfel an
14. Ravel: Air du Feu: “Arrière…” from L’enfant et les sortilèges
15. Rachmaninov: ‘A-oo’, Op.38, No. 6
16. Ives, C: Evening
17. Purcell: Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest, Z195
Schubert:
18. Auflösung, D807
19. Abendstern, D806
Schumann:
20. Jetzt sank des Abends gold’ner Schein (from Das Paradies und die Peri)
21. Warte, warte, wilder Schiffmann (No. 6 from Liederkreis Op. 24)
Eisler: 5 Elegies
22. XXIII. Jeden Morgen, mein Brot zu verdienen
23. XXIV. Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt
24. Mahler: Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
25. Crumb, G: Wind Elegy
26. anon.: I will give my love an apple
The gestation of this project lasted two years. Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake finally concentrated their research on the themes of Eve, Paradise and banishment. Some songs were obvious choices, such as Fauré’s Paradis, in which God appears to Eve and asks her to name each flower and animal, or Purcell’s Sleep, Adam, sleep with its references to Genesis. But Anna Prohaska also wished to illustrate the cliché of the woman who brought original sin into the world and her status as a tempter who leads man astray, as in Brahms’s Salamander, Wolf’s Die Bekehrte or Ravel’s Air du Feu. In Das Paradies und die Peri, Schumann conjures up the image of Syria’s rose-covered plains. Bernstein also transports us to the desert with Silhouette. John Milton’s seventeenth-century masterpiece Paradise Lost was the inspiration for Charles Ives and Benjamin Britten, also featured in this very rich programme that constitutes an invitation to travel and reflection.