Composer: Ferencz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Franz Peter Schubert, Richard Wagner
Performer: Juliette Journaux
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA984
Release: 2023
Size: 909 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Liszt: Der Wanderer (No. 11 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558)
02. Wagner: Mein Schlaf ist Träumen (from Siegfried)
Schubert: Klavierstücke, D946
03. No. 1, Allegro assai
04. No. 3, Allegretto
05. No. 3, Allegro
06. Schubert: In Der Ferne, D957 No. 6
07. Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)
08. Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II ‘Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’, D768
09. Mahler: Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde)
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 Superieur de Paris… The album opens with Schubert’s Lied Der Wanderer in a piano transcription by Liszt, followed by his three Klavierstucke 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.