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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelAlpha, Allp
UPC3760014195815
eBay Product ID (ePID)3046046689
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2020
GenrePop
ArtistVarious
Release TitleParadise Lost
Dimensions
Item Height0.42 in
Item Weight0.22 lb
Item Length5.45 in
Item Width4.84 in
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Number of Discs1
NotesThe 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. In Das Paradies und die Peri, Schumann conjures up the image of Syria's rose-covered plains. Bernstein also transports us to the desert with Silhouette... John Milton's seventeenth-century masterpiece Paradise Lost was the inspiration for Charles Ives and Benjamin Britten, also featured in this very rich programme that constitutes an invitation to travel and reflection