Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake - Paradise Lost (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 581 | Recorded: 2019
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 581 | Recorded: 2019
The gestation of this project lasted two years. Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake finally concentrated their research on the themes of Eve, Paradise and banishment. Some songs were obvious choices, such as Fauré's Paradis, in which God appears to Eve and asks her to name each flower and animal, or Purcell's Sleep, Adam, sleep with it's references to Genesis. But Anna Prohaska also wished to illustrate the cliché of the woman who brought original sin into the world and her status as a tempter who leads man astray, as in Brahms's Salamander, Wolf's Die Bekehrte or Ravel's Air du Feu.