: Accessible via Apple Music, Amazon Music , and Anghami . Mein Traum - harmonia mundi
The project is structured as a continuous musical journey exploring quintessential Romantic themes: wandering, solitude, disillusioned love, and the supernatural. Pichon uses Schubert's dream-story as a narrative thread to bridge disparate musical fragments into a cohesive whole. Track Highlights and Structure
: Includes arias from Schubert's unfinished oratorio Lazarus and the opera Alfonso und Estrella .
: Notable inclusions like Liszt's transcription of Schubert’s Der Doppelgänger for voice and orchestra. Availability and Formats
: Movements I and II are interspersed within the vocal selections, serving as a structural backbone.
: Features Weber's Oberon and Euryanthe , alongside Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust .
The album features 15 tracks that blend vocal and orchestral masterpieces:
The album (Harmonia Mundi, 2022) is a conceptual masterpiece featuring baritone Stéphane Degout , conductor Raphaël Pichon , and the ensemble Pygmalion . This recording weaves together a "Romantic fresco" of works by Schubert, Weber, and Schumann , centered around an enigmatic autobiographical text written by Franz Schubert in 1822. The Vision Behind the Album
