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Christiane Karg auf den Spuren des Orients - "Parfum": https://BC.lnk.to/ParfumID

Der Ausgangspunkt der Aufnahme von "Parfum" war Christiane Kargs Auseinandersetzung mit den poetischen Werken von Charles Baudelaire, Leconte de Lisle, Paul Verlaine, Tristan Klingsor und Victor Hugo. Eine sprachliche Poesie, die eine kongeniale Entsprechung in der impressionistischen Musik der Jahrhundertwende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert findet. Christiane Karg hat schließlich Werke von Duparc, Koechlin, Debussy oder Ravel für ihr neues Album zusammengestellt. In dieser Auswahl findet sich auch eine frühe Komposition Brittens, die wiederum von Debussy und Ravel inspiriert wurde. Christiane Karg versprüht mit ihrer Stimme diesen poetischen Duft. Poesie und Musik, Wort und Gesang verschmelzen zu Parfum!

Englisch:
This album is pure poetry – taking its spark from Christiane Karg’s engagement with the poetical works of Charles Baudelaire, Leconte de Lisle, Paul Verlaine, Tristan Klingsor and Victor Hugo. A poetry in diction that has a wonderful affinity with Impressionist music at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century. Christiane Karg finally decided upon works by Duparc, Koechlin, Debussy and Ravel for her new album. Her selection also includes an early composition by Benjamin Britten, which in its turn was inspired by Debussy and Ravel. Christiane Karg’s voice wafts this poetic scent, these colours in sound, aloft. Poetry and music, words and voice blend into “Parfum”!

This selection of French poems from the second half of the nineteenth century is influenced by the Impressionism and Symbolism of the era. Most of these pieces are snapshots, intended as simple yet realistic reproductions of the authors’ experiences, each containing a host of symbols and linguistic imagery which suggests that their special, unique character goes far beyond reality: like the aroma of a costly perfume that evaporates and leaves behind it just a hint of elegance. These poems explore the intangible evanescence and so I thought “Parfum” seemed the ideal title for this recording. Parfum gives a lovely sense of melancholy that evaporates as soon as one is aware of it, only blossoming in the poetry and music through memory and reflection, giving the listener’s imagination free reign.

Details:
Parfum
Christiane Karg
Bamberger Symphoniker
David Afkham
1 CD • 0300832BC • Berlin Classics / Edel:Kultur
http://www.berlin-classics-music.com
VÖ: 07.04.2017