Hello Darkness: An Ode to Death in Songs from Monteverdi to Eilish
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72887
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 18th February 2022
Contents
Works
Gesange (4), op.2The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
The Curse of Millhaven
Sun and Shadow
Charlie Rutlage
Abschiedslieder (4) (Songs of Farewell), op.14
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Listen Before I Go (Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell)
In Germany before the War
Ode an den Mord
Gedichte (2) von Marina Zwetajewa
Der Jungling und der Tod, D545
Der Tod und das Madchen (Death and the Maiden), D531 op.7 no.3
Lieder und Gesange IV (5), op.96
Artists
Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo-soprano)Jan Philip Schulze (piano, electronic organ)
Works
Gesange (4), op.2The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
The Curse of Millhaven
Sun and Shadow
Charlie Rutlage
Abschiedslieder (4) (Songs of Farewell), op.14
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Listen Before I Go (Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell)
In Germany before the War
Ode an den Mord
Gedichte (2) von Marina Zwetajewa
Der Jungling und der Tod, D545
Der Tod und das Madchen (Death and the Maiden), D531 op.7 no.3
Lieder und Gesange IV (5), op.96
Artists
Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo-soprano)Jan Philip Schulze (piano, electronic organ)
About
"After the recent recording ('Dirty Minds'), which focused on 'la petite mort', it seemed a natural progression to turn our attention to 'la grande mort'! Darkness in the outside world and the inner self has always been – alongside Love – one of the chief themes of vocal music, and compositions and songs about death are legion during every period of musical history.
"The music on this recording is extremely diverse and we relished the idea of programming songs from different centuries in different styles and genres. We begin with a collection of songs about melancholia, inner abysses, longing for death and murderous lust. But the CD is also rich in songs about comfort and hope, light instead of despair – with lashings of black humour!
"Composers down the ages have used innovative approaches to render the theme of death. Chromaticism is used tellingly by Monteverdi and Schubert. Duparc's sensuous 'Extase' (1878), is nothing short of a miniature Liebestod. Korngold and Wolfgang Rihm play with translucent semitone sighs, Schumann's 'Nachtlied' is characterized by hovering harmonies; Strauss and Korngold use late-romantic opulence; while tonality with Charles Ives and Alban Berg begins to lose its hold, while Berg, abandons tonality entirely. John Cage goes a step further and directs the pianist to drum the notes on the lid of a completely closed piano. Randy Newman's 'In Germany before the war' is wreathed in mystery."
Praised for the "exceptional wealth of colours" of her voice (Opernwelt) and her singing of "exquisite, inexhaustible sweetness" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Olivia Vermeulen has established herself as one of the leading vocal artists in today's classical music world. Her opera and concert performances in a wide range of repertoire from early music to 21st-century works have stunned audiences around the world.
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