Füting: Mechthild - A New Chamber Opera / Ensemble Adapter, AuditivVokal Dresden

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Label
New Focus Recordings
Release Date
June 2, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Reiko Futing
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Adapter
    • PERFORMER
      Hanna Herfurtner, Olivia Stahn, Susi Wirth, Auditivvokal Dresden
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 02, 2023
    • UPC
      690277901157
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR369
    • LABEL
      New Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Contemporary Era

Composer Reiko Füting releases his third album on New Focus, the chamber opera Mechthild in collaboration with librettist and theologian Christian Lehnert. Mechthild of Magdeburg (the German location of the work's premiere) was a 13th century female Christian mystic whose influential texts were rediscovered in the 19th century and have since been studied for their impact on subsequent Northern European religious writings. Füting and Lehnert's setting tackles topics of faith and asceticism in a context that explores the musicality inherent in language, and uses quotation to connect different eras of artistic expression through time and memory.