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Netherlands Radio Philharmonic - Willem Jeths: The Tell-Tale Heart [CD]

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic - Willem Jeths: The Tell-Tale Heart [CD]

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The fourth disc of music by Dutch composer Willem Jeths on Challenge Classics. Following the release of Symphony No 1 (CC72693), the opera Ritratto (CC72849) and the Requiem (CC72874), here is a new orchestral disc with three substantial works. The pieces include a purely orchestral work, a violin concerto, and a theatre piece for soprano and orchestra with soloists Tasmin Little (violin) and Juliane Banse (soprano), and conductors Jaap van Zweden, Reinbert de Leeuw and James Gaffigan.\r
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Mors Aeterna for orchestra, which was premiered in November 2015 during the NTR Saturday Matinee series, narrates a quest for stillness, a piece of pervasive calm, of gentle sounds which were intended to create the impression of having come from the hereafter: the Nirvana of silence where the soul can retreat.\r
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In the Second Violin Concerto, Diptych Portrait (2009) The orchestra is more of a sounding board than a partner in any dialogue. So what is this all about, these convulsive tensions, overblown crescendi? It is the soloist's split relationship with himself. This is a double portrait of one individual, torn apart internally. The violin represents an abstract character that, despite being tormented and audibly injured, strives to come to terms with itself and even appears to succeed in doing so when we hear the serene sigh of enlightenment at the close of the piece.\r
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In The Tell-Tale Heart (2017) the building blocks of Jeths' thematic narration are all there; death once again, once again an internal monologue. But now transformed by Jeths into an opera, intended to supplement Bartok's one-act work Duke Bluebeard's Castle \u2013 another horror story \u2013 a link actually referred to in the score. Here, the narrator of Poe's tale becomes a woman, as Jeths needs the part to be sung by a soprano: a piece for musical theatre performed by a single, fairly obsessed character. Death may well be our fate, but you cannot have death on your conscience. Only when you have left your ghosts behind can your conscience find peace.\r
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'Based on a work by Edgar Allan Poe, the central work for soprano and orchestra features violent crescendos and percussive clangs. Tasmin Little tckles a similar soundscape in the concerto with gusto' \u2013 BBC Music Magazine, 3 STARS

Willem Jeths: Mors Aeterna

Willem Jeths: Violin Concerto No.2 \u201cDiptych Portrait\u201d

Willem Jeths: The Tell-Tale Heart

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Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.The fourth disc of music by Dutch composer Willem Jeths on Challenge Classics. Following the release of Symphony No 1 (CC72693), the opera Ritratto (CC72849) and the Requiem (CC72874), here is a new orchestral disc with three substantial works. The pieces include a purely orchestral work, a violin concerto, and a theatre piece for soprano and orchestra with soloists Tasmin Little (violin) and Juliane Banse (soprano), and conductors Jaap van Zweden, Reinbert de Leeuw and James Gaffigan.rr

Mors Aeterna for orchestra, which was premiered in November 2015 during the NTR Saturday Matinee series, narrates a quest for stillness, a piece of pervasive calm, of gentle sounds which were intended to create the impression of having come from the hereafter: the Nirvana of silence where the soul can retreat.rr

In the Second Violin Concerto, Diptych Portrait (2009) The orchestra is more of a sounding board than a partner in any dialogue. So what is this all about, these convulsive tensions, overblown crescendi? It is the soloist's split relationship with himself. This is a double portrait of one individual, torn apart internally. The violin represents an abstract character that, despite being tormented and audibly injured, strives to come to terms with itself and even appears to succeed in doing so when we hear the serene sigh of enlightenment at the close of the piece.rr

In The Tell-Tale Heart (2017) the building blocks of Jeths' thematic narration are all there; death once again, once again an internal monologue. But now transformed by Jeths into an opera, intended to supplement Bartok's one-act work Duke Bluebeard's Castle u2013 another horror story u2013 a link actually referred to in the score. Here, the narrator of Poe's tale becomes a woman, as Jeths needs the part to be sung by a soprano: a piece for musical theatre performed by a single, fairly obsessed character. Death may well be our fate, but you cannot have death on your conscience. Only when you have left your ghosts behind can your conscience find peace.rr

'Based on a work by Edgar Allan Poe, the central work for soprano and orchestra features violent crescendos and percussive clangs. Tasmin Little tckles a similar soundscape in the concerto with gusto' u2013 BBC Music Magazine, 3 STARS

Willem Jeths: Mors Aeterna

Willem Jeths: Violin Concerto No.2 u201cDiptych Portraitu201d

Willem Jeths: The Tell-Tale Heart

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