Charlotte Riedijk - soprano

Peter Brunt - violin

Larissa Groeneveld - cello

Ellen Corver - piano

 

 

by Klas Torstensson

 

I.   Lettres non expédiées (La Valse) - Camille Claudel (1864-1943)

II.  Árbol de la Esperanza - Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

III. Le dolci parole - Cristina di Svezia (1626-1689) (Alessandro Guidi )

IV. In großer Sehnsucht - Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)

V.  Océaniennes - Louise Michel (1830-1905)

 

 

The five songs that form the song cycle In großer Sehnsucht present portraits of as many women; women who - each in her own personal way, each in her own social context - played an important role in history.

In großer Sehnsucht uses text fragments collected from personal diaries (Frida Kahlo), letters from prison or a lunatic asylum (Rosa Luxemburg and Camille Claudel, respectively), speeches given in her defence and poems written in exile (Louise Michel), and a pastoral drama - favola pastorale - (Cristina di Svezia, alleged to be the literary collaborator of the Italian poet and dramatist Alessandro Guidi).