This album is a co-production with Südwestrundfunk, SWR2, and was recorded at Stiftskirche Sunnisheim, Sinsheim, Germany.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album explores how composers have been inspired by birds, with the nightingale symbolizing love, the swallow representing renewal, and the cuckoo embodying infidelity and jealousy.
Album & Artwork
The album's title, "Le Rossignol en Amour" (The Nightingale in Love), refers to the nightingale's role as a "melodious bard of love" in its complex, sublime song.
Composer Biography
Elias Parish-Alvars, a composer featured on this album, was nicknamed 'Liszt of the harp' by Hector Berlioz for his significant contributions to harp literature.
Compositional Technique
The collection of Liszt's Liebesträume (Dreams of Love) presents love in three stages: exaltation, eroticism, and maturity, each illustrating a poem.
Instruments
The harp, as featured on this album, benefited from Sébastien Erard's improvements in the early 19th century, allowing it to rival the piano.
Performer Biography
Agnès Clément, the harpist on this album, won First Prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2016, along with two special prizes.
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