Juliette Journaux – Wanderer Without Words (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Juliette Journaux – Wanderer Without Words (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:08 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Classical
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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.

Tracklist:
1-1. Juliette Journaux – 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558: No. 11, Der Wanderer (05:39)
1-2. Juliette Journaux – Siegfried, WWV 86C, Act III, Scene 1: Mein Schlaf ist Träumen (Transcr. for Piano by Juliette Journaux) (05:23)
1-3. Juliette Journaux – No. 1, Allegro assai (06:33)
1-4. Juliette Journaux – No. 3, Allegretto (07:56)
1-5. Juliette Journaux – No. 3, Allegro (04:32)
1-6. Juliette Journaux – Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 6, In der Ferne (Transcr. for Piano by Juliette Journaux) (06:55)
1-7. Juliette Journaux – Rückert Lieder: No. 4, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Transcr. for Piano by Juliette Journaux) (07:01)
1-8. Juliette Journaux – Wandrers Nachtlied, D. 768 (Transcr. for Piano by Juliette Journaux) (02:19)
1-9. Juliette Journaux – Das Lied von der Erde: No. 6, Der Abschied (Arr. for Piano by Jos v. Wöss and Juliette Journaux) (10:46)

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