Credits:

Juliette Journaux

Description:

[Unraveling the Genealogy of *Tristan* Through Piano Solo: The Sounds of Late German Romanticism]The second release in the AlphaClassics series by French pianist Juliette Jurnot features performances of German Late Romantic works played on period instruments. Central to this collection is Wagners opera *Tristan und Isolde*, which, since its premiere in 1865, has brought about a major revolution in harmony. This album features pioneering works from that era by composers in that lineageincluding Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Wolf, Schrecker, Braunfels, and Korngold. The majority of the program consists of meticulous arrangements for solo piano by Jurnau himself, which condense the complex scores for large orchestras, vocal parts, and chorusare condensed onto a single piano. This allows the dissonances and intricate harmonic structures to clash purely on the keyboard, presented directly without bein