Franz Schubert - Alban Berg - Claude Debussy - Robert Schumann - Henry Purcell - Johannes Brahms - Hugo Wolf - Kurt Weill - Jake Heggie - William Bolcom - Arnold Schönberg - Hanns Eisler - W. A. Mozart

Dirty Minds

Olivia Vermeulen / Jan Philip Schulze

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917283525

Catalog number: CC 72835
Releasedate: 21-02-20

- An intriguing recital by one of the most interesting and talented mezzo-sopranos of today
- 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’s “exceptional wealth of colours” (Opernwelt) is deployed at its best in this carefully-thought programme that keeps you focused until the end

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”.

For the booklet with lyrics to the songs, please see this link.