Forests of the Night, Forests of the Night released on 25 April 2025 by Dutch producer/engineer Frerik de Jong of 7 Mountain Records , brings together German Romantic lieder performed by mezzo-soprano Marine Fribourg and and pianist Flore Merlin (Streicher 1847 piano), about the more or less frightening creatures that can be encountered at night in a forest in Germanic mythology: elves, nymphs, witches celebrating the Sabbath, the Lorelei or the Alder King, but also Death himself. The poems are at times disturbing, even tragic, and at other times jubilant or mocking. Themes such as seduction, the contemplation of nature and the night, the danger of desire and love, and the strangeness of the unknown are all explored in a great symbolic journey.
The composers: Pauline Viardot-García, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann-Wieck, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Carl Loewe, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Edvard Grieg, as well as Frenchman Benjamin Attahir, whose premiere closes the programme.
Il a été enregistré sur un magnifique piano Streicher de 1847.
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