filles du Rhin

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns to the Rhinemaidens mainly for their first words, which he hears as a twittering: they are the first characters to emerge from the depths of the Rhine, and their song opens Wagner's work with a speech that comes before language12. In a session devoted to Mignon, he describes this babble as something in between, between the cry and language: it has the channel without the code3. In a session on the sciences of history, he also looks at their role in the drama. They guard the gold poorly and reveal that one must renounce love to seize it4. They humiliate Alberich, whom they find dirty and ugly5. He thus approaches them from two angles: on one side, as a musical figure of the origin of language; on the other, as the element that sets off the conflict over the gold.

1. 1#7 Réponses aux questions (suite)3 Dec 2020 · 53:57
2. 2WAGNER - LA VÉRITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE PURE • Pagani Parle Musique20 Jul 2022 · 9:51
3. 3#1 Mignon ou le chant du silence7 Apr 2021 · 32:22
4. 49 #12 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?14 Jan 2021 · 58:59
5. 59 #12 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?14 Jan 2021 · 1:29:19

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