Jeths - The Tell-Tale Heart
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72908
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 11th March 2022
Contents
Artists
Tasmin Little (violin)Juliane Banse (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
James GaffiganReinbert de Leeuw
Jaap van Zweden
Works
Mors aeternaThe Tell-Tale Heart
Violin Concerto no.2 'Diptych Portrait'
Artists
Tasmin Little (violin)Juliane Banse (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
James GaffiganReinbert de Leeuw
Jaap van Zweden
About
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.
Mors ćterna 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.
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.
In The Tell-Tale Heart (2017) the building blocks of Jeths's thematic narration are all there; death once again, once again an internal monologue. But now transformed by Jeths into an opera, intended to supplement Bartók's one-act work Duke Bluebeard's Castle – another horror story – 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.
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