Composer: Lili Boulanger, Claude Achille Debussy, Henri Duparc, Ferencz Liszt, Franz Peter Schubert, Clara Schumann, Hugo Wolf
Performer: Sandrine Piau, David Kadouch
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA911
Release: 2023
Size: 1.02 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Liszt: Der Fischerknabe, S.292 No. 1
Wolf: Mörike-Lieder
02. No. 23, Auf ein altes Bild
03. No. 8, Begegnung
04. No. 12, Verborgenheit
Schubert: Gesange Aus ‘wilhelm Meister’ D877 (Goethe)
05. No. 3, Lied der Mignon [II]. Nicht zu langsam
06. No. 2, Lied der Mignon [I]. Langsam
07. Schumann C: Sie liebten sich beide, Op. 13 No. 2
08. Schumann C: Lorelei
09. Schumann C: Deuxieme Scherzo, Op. 14
10. Schubert: Erlkönig, D328
11. Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531
12. Schubert: Kennst du das Land (Mignons Gesang), D321
13. Duparc: L’Invitation au voyage
14. Duparc: La Vie antérieure
15. Boulanger L: Si tout ceci n’est qu’un pauvre rêve
16. Debussy: Recueillement
17. Boulanger L: Vous m’avez regardé avec toute votre âme
18. Boulanger L: Cortège
Debussy: Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire
19. No. 3, Le jet d’eau
20. No. 5, La mort des amants
21. Liszt: Comment, disaient-ils (Hugo), S276
Schubert: 4 Gesänge aus ‘Wilhelm Meister’, D. 877
22. No. 4, Lied der Mignon [III]. Langsam
Sandrine Piau and the pianist David Kadouch have formed a new duo whose first concerts have been enthusiastically received. As is her wont, the French soprano enjoys intermingling languages and the worlds of different composers and poets around a theme; here Schubert, Liszt, Wolf and Clara Schumann rub shoulders with Lili Boulanger, Duparc and Debussy. Sandrine Piau explains: ‘The promise of new horizons, the joy of new encounters: the journey in all its forms was the common thread of this recital for David and me. From the quest for a longed-for yet inaccessible elsewhere to the ultimate transition to death, it maps out our aspirations, our obstacles and the “joyous getaways” offered to us by the whirlwind of life. She quotes a beautiful poem often attributed to Pablo Neruda: ‘He dies slowly who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not know how to find grace in his own eyes.’