Album description:

Forests of the Night brings together German Romantic lieder performed by mezzo-soprano Marine Fribourg 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.

Physical- and digital album release: 25 April 2025

Catalogue number: 7MNTN061
EAN: 8721082425803

Available as a physical copy at e.g.
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Promo video:

Music video Felix Mendelssohn – Hexenlied, Op.8 No.8