Composer: Gustav Theodore Holst, Andreas N. Tarkmann
Performer: Lena Kutzner, Ryszard Kalus, Benjamin Bruns, Mädchenchor Hannover, Arte Ensemble Hannover
Conductor: Gudrun Schröfel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Coviello
Catalogue: COV91903
Release: 2019
Size: 752 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Tarkmann: Inka-Kantate Töchter der Sonne
01. I. Schwer schreitet der junge Morgen
02. II. Und mein Mund?
03. III. Wir weben und weben
04. IV. Nur einmal frei sein
05. V. Mein Freund
06. VI. Von würdigen Ahnen
07. VII. Still ist es in diesem Haus
08. VIII. Auf den Berg ziehen wir
09. IX. Ein Fest wollen wir feiern
10. X. Und dann die grossen, jungen Krieger
11. XI. Und wenn der kalte Abend
12. XII. Gegangen ist meine Sonn’
13. XIII. Ihr Töchter, ihr meine Schwestern
14. XIV. Gekommen nun meine letzte Nacht
15. XV. Dunkel schreitet der Abend
16. XVI. Jubeln lasst uns Vater Sonne
Holst: Sāvitri, Op. 25
17. I. Sāvitri, Sāvitri
18. II. Greetings to Thee, My Loving Sāvitri
19. III. I Am with Thee, My Arms Around Thee
20. IV. Then enter Lord, Dwell with Me
21. V. Death the Just One, Whose Word Ruleth All
22. VI. Sāvitri, Is it Thou?
Andreas N. Tarkmann calls his latest work Daughter of the Sun: Inca Cantata – a film about the old town Machu Picchu rediscovered in 1911 gave him the idea. In the Inca culture, the “sun virgins” were young girls who were snatched from their families at an early age, who lived isolated in a monastery and were responsible for the development of the religious sun cult.
From this historical tradition, librettist Markus Pohlmeyer developed a series of sixteen songs which, although fictitious, credibly tell the life of the daughters of the Sun from their point of view. Tarkmann developed his own musical language, which he wrote especially for the Mädchenchor Hannover.
Gustav Holst’s chamber opera Savitri is an excellent addition – it goes back to an episode from the old Indian epic of the same name. Under the direction of Gudrun Schröfel, the Girls’ Choir is able to bring its tonal strengths to bear in both works.