Olivia Vermeulen & Jan Philip Schulze
Release Date: 03 April 2020
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917283525
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
An intriguing recital by one of the most interesting and talented mezzo-sopranos of today: Olivia Vermeulen with her accompanist Jan Philip Schulze. From Henry Purcell to Jake Heggie, via the greatest Romantic and Expressionist Lied composers, this is a survey of texts about love and sex set to music.
Olivia Vermeulen: The topic: eroticism, lust, sex, power and violence, prostitution and murder, and all areas in the high-voltage field in between: set to music, complex and extremely topical. If the erotic may not be named, it slips into subtexts. With this album we want to highlight the intentions and
meanings – and also the abysses – of these songs. One may turn away with a shudder or sit back and relax in the face of this achievement in sublimation. The fact that erotic abysses, desires and traumas have always been the cause of great art cannot be denied, nor the fact that art and music would not exist without "dirty minds".
Tracklisting
Narratio Quartet
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Simona Marchesi, Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi
Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Olivia Vermeulen & Jan Philip Schulze
