le Affinit Elettive Goethe

Le mythe de Faust raconte l'histoire d'un homme très cultivé qui cherche à comprendre les mystères du monde qui l'entoure. Un jour, il passe un pacte avec le Diable qui lui promet de lui faire connaître tous ces mystères en échange de son âme. Les deux personnages commencent alors à errer dans le Royaume des Ténèbres, jusqu'à la rencontre de Faust avec Marguerite dont il tombe amoureux et dont il va causer la perte. …

Abed Azrie - Hafez & Goethe: Divan (2013) [CD+DVD] {Doumtak}
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Classical / World Music / Jazz

In his latest album, the Syrian composer-singer Abed Azrié adapts texts of the great contemporary Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis. Back on the work of this "alchemist of communication", as he likes to define the musician role, who does not hesitate to enrich traditional Arabic music with synthesizers and Western instruments.

When it came to setting his poems to music as art songs, Goethe preferred the approach of Carl Friedrich Zelter, who composed "carefully" and always focused on the rhythm of the language. Fortunately, not all composers adhered to the ideas of the poet prince, but rather, like Schubert for example, thought much more independently in terms of composition. The recording with Sofya Gandilyan and Fanie Antonelou thus creates a fascinating field of tension between the very different approaches of contemporary composers to Goethe's poetry.

Espousing the cause of the Institute for the Musical Heritage of Piedmont, over a ten-year period Opus 111 are issuing 50 discs of “Treasures of Piedmont”, mostly first recordings. The Academia Montis Regalis under Luigi Mangiocavallo has already opened our eyes and ears to orchestral music by Pugnani (10/96), perhaps the greatest violinist of his time. Now the same forces offer something well off the beaten track and only recently brought to light – a “musical translation” of Goethe’s novel Werther, which had been published a couple of decades previously. (The Baker-Slonimsky Dictionary, exceptionally, is totally wrong about this work.)

Méphisto rend parfois visite au Seigneur, qui ne dédaigne pas de parler au diable. Surtout s'il s'agit de Faust, ce savant, ce magicien… Satan aimerait tellement le tenter, le faire trébucher, gagner son âme pour l'éternité.