Hermine May, Manuel Lange - L'Amour et la Mort (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Duparc La Vie Anterieure
02. Duparc L'Invitation au Voyage
03. Duparc Testament
04. Duparc Chanson triste
05. Duparc Le Manoir de Rosemonde
06. Duparc Phidyle
07. Duparc Soupir
08. Duparc Elegie
09. Duparc Extase
10. Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91 No. 1, Der Engel
11. Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91 No. 2, Stehe still!
12. Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91 No. 3, Im Treibhaus
13. Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91 No. 4, Schmerzen
14. Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91 No. 5, Traume
15. Wagner Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Isoldens Liebestod (arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt)

Existential
Mezzo-soprano Hermine May and pianist Manuel Lange invite you into Wagner's world of Tristan and Isolde where insatiable yearnings are awakened, passions heightened and where the fervent desire to transcend reality finds supreme love beyond death in Liebestod.

Smouldering
The Wesendonck Lieder build a musical bridge to the opera, with Im Treibhaus and Traume described by Wagner himself as studies for Tristan. Isoldens Liebestod is an emotionally charged, virtuosic piano version, arranged by Wagner's friend and father-in-law Franz Liszt, which is combined here with Wagner's original vocal part for Isolde.

Intoxicating
Henri Duparc's chansons in L'amour et la mort narrate the stages of Tristan's love from dreamy longing, through forbidden lustful fulfilment, to Isolde's fatal ecstasy in an impressionistic tonal language that repeatedly revolves around Tristan motifs and variations of its famous chord.

Ethereal
Hardly any other French composer was as greatly influenced by the Bayreuth master as Duparc. The rampant wagnerisme in Paris in the second half of the nineteenth century had enraptured him, especially the love-death mysticism of Tristan and Isolde. His famous melodies, even though only 17 of his songs have survived, are such jewels of musical prosody that Duparc became known as one of the most important French song composers.

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