Kokoschka’s Doll: Music by Casken, Alma & Gustav Mahler, etc.
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Label: Champs Hill Records
Cat No: CHRCD150
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 24th January 2020
Contents
Works
Kokoschka's DollIsolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), S447
Einsamer Gang
Lieder (4)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5), WWV91
Ehetanzlied und andere Gesange, op.10
Artists
John Tomlinson (bass-baritone)Rozanna Madylus (soprano)
Counterpoise
Works
Kokoschka's DollIsolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), S447
Einsamer Gang
Lieder (4)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5), WWV91
Ehetanzlied und andere Gesange, op.10
Artists
John Tomlinson (bass-baritone)Rozanna Madylus (soprano)
Counterpoise
About
Soprano Rozanna Madylus, together with brilliant chamber ensemble Counterpoise, sets the scene in songs by Alma Mahler, her first love and composition teacher Zemlinsky, and the man she married, Gustav Mahler, in new arrangements by composer David Matthews.
Revered bass-baitone Sir John Tomlinson takes centre-stage for John Casken’s Kokoschka’s Doll, an extraordinary telling of the real-life story of Oskar Kokoschka’s infatuation with Alma Mahler. More widely, Kokoschka’s Doll explores the way women have been objectified sexually throughout history – as models and muses, as objects rather than as real women (Oskar, a great Austrain painter, commissioned a life-size doll to help him come to terms with the end of his passionate and tempestuous relationship with Alma).
The new libretto text, by John Casken and Barry Millington, draws on Oskar’s letters and autobiography. In all, this release charts the life of Alma Mahler, a strikingly accomplished woman and composer who gave up her musical ambitions to marry Gustav Mahler, and who remained a muse and highly attractive inspiration to many others. Her early compositions are little-known gems which deserve much wider attention; this album release highlights her story.
Sir John Tomlinson writes: “It has been a joy to work with Rozanna (as Alma), and the four instrumentalists whose distillation of the sounds of the symphony orchestra into its four constituent parts creates the thrilling clarity and transparency unique to the Counterpoise sound, and quality. Welcome to the world of Oskar and Alma.”
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