Schubert - Anja Linder - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

For Anja Linder, the music of Franz Schubert is the embodiment of youth and light gained through suffering. In 2001, in Strasbourg, a terrible accident changed the harpist's life forever. Schubert became her daily companion as she rebuilt her life, and even strengthened her ever-growing desire for music. And what were the very first notes to be heard on the new instrument built for her by engineers Jean-Marie Panterne and Marc Lamoureux? Those of Schubert, of course. In this first album published by naïve, Anja Linder invites us today quite naturally to a Schubertiade, accompanied by cellist Julie Sévilla-Fraysse and violinist Laurent Korcia. The three friends meet for the sublime slow movement of the second Trio, well known from its use in the cinema (notably Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lindon) and adapted for harp, violin and cello by Anja Linder. A combination particularly cherished by the musician, it is a reminder that the harp was once a key instrument in the practice of chamber music: until the dawn of the nineteenth century, its repertoire could be assimilated to that of the piano and the harpsichord. Preceding the Trio, two Lieder frame the Arpeggione Sonata arranged for cello and harp. Here, the harp takes over the piano part while the violin is a spontaneous substitute for the voice. A particularly lyrical piece, written by the Viennese composer in November 1824 for an instrument that has since disappeared, a sort of cello-guitar, or 'gamba' guitar, and which cellists have adopted by transposing the score. In the new arrangement devised by the harpist, the Arpeggione Sonata rediscovers here the sound of secretive, dreamy confidence characteristic of the original configuration. A very touching musical moment, in which the elegance of the harp played by Anja Linder provides an ideal counterpoint to the airy, almost spiky sound of Julie Sévilla- Fraysse's cello.

Label: Naive | Origin: Holland