Ruders: The Thirteenth Child / Shwartz, Starobin, Odense Symphony

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Bridge Records
Release Date
June 21, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      RUDERS, POUL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Odense Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Bridge Academy Singers, Boehler, Sewailam, Mumford, Kent, Shafer, Portill
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 21, 2019
    • UPC
      090404952722
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BCD9527
    • LABEL
      Bridge Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I Scene 1: In a garden of the castle of Frohagord: Drokan's Warning (Hjarne, Drokan, Twelve Princes)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Matt Boehler, Ashraf Sewailam

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    2. Act I Scene 1: In a garden of the castle of Frohagord: Our House Endures (Hjarne, Twelve Princes, Gertrude)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Matt Boehler, Tamara Mumford

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    3. Act I Scene 1: In a garden of the castle of Frohagord: The Softest Spoken (Hjarne, Gertrude)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Matt Boehler, Tamara Mumford

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    4. Act I Scene 1: In a garden of the castle of Frohagord: What is this Madness? (Gertrude, Hjarne)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Matt Boehler, Tamara Mumford

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    5. Act I Scene 1: In a garden of the castle of Frohagord: Lilies, Red as Blood (Gertrude, Hjarne)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Matt Boehler, Tamara Mumford

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    6. Act I Scene 1: In a garden of the castle of Frohagord: The Night Air Groans (Hjarne)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    7. Act I Scene 1: In a garden of the castle of Frohagord: The Trembling of the Earth (Drokan)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ashraf Sewailam

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    8. Act I Scene 1: In a garden of the castle of Frohagord: Interlude I

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    9. Act I Scene 2: 18 years later, in the Royal Chapel of Frohagord: Hjarne's Funeral (Mourners, Frederic, Drokan, Lyra, Gertrude)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Matt Boehler, Ashraf Sewailam, Tamara Mumford, Alasdair Kent, Sarah Shafer

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    10. Act I Scene 2: 18 years later, in the Royal Chapel of Frohagord: Interlude II

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    11. Act I Scene 3: The Bedroom of Queen Gertrude: Twelve Brothers (Gertrude, Lyra)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Tamara Mumford, Sarah Shafer

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    12. Act I Scene 3: The Bedroom of Queen Gertrude: The Lilies of Frohagord (Gertrude, Lyra)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Tamara Mumford, Sarah Shafer

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    13. Act I Scene 3: The Bedroom of Queen Gertrude: Interlude III

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    14. Act I Scene 3: The Bedroom of Queen Gertrude: Oh, Mother (Lyra)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Shafer

      Conductor: Benjamin Shwartz

    15. Act II Scene 1: A dark, sinister forest, a cottage in the distance: The Forest (Lyra, Benjamin)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Shafer, David Portillo

      Conductor: David Starobin

    16. Act II Scene 1: A dark, sinister forest, a cottage in the distance: Food Song (Toke, Corbin, Benjamin, Nine Brothers)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Alasdair Kent, David Portillo, Alex Rosen

      Conductor: David Starobin

    17. Act II Scene 1: A dark, sinister forest, a cottage in the distance: A Riddle (Benjamin, Toke, Corbin, Nine Brothers)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Alasdair Kent, David Portillo, Alex Rosen

      Conductor: David Starobin

    18. Act II Scene 1: A dark, sinister forest, a cottage in the distance: My Secret (Benjamin, Toke, Corbin, Nine Brothers)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Alasdair Kent, David Portillo, Alex Rosen

      Conductor: David Starobin

    19. Act II Scene 2: A darkened garden, the cottage has disappeared: The Spell (The Ghost of Gertrude, Lyra)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Tamara Mumford, Sarah Shafer

      Conductor: David Starobin

    20. Act II Scene 3: The Castle of Hauven, seven years have passed: Interlude IV

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Starobin

    21. Act II Scene 3: The Castle of Hauven, seven years have passed: Light and Shadows (Townsfolk of Hauven, Drokan, Frederic)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ashraf Sewailam, Alasdair Kent

      Conductor: David Starobin

    22. Act II Scene 3: The Castle of Hauven, seven years have passed: Frederic's Return (Frederic, Drokan, Townsfolk)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ashraf Sewailam, Alasdair Kent

      Conductor: David Starobin

    23. Act II Scene 3: The Castle of Hauven, seven years have passed: Keep My Beloved Safe (Frederic, Drokan)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ashraf Sewailam, Alasdair Kent

      Conductor: David Starobin

    24. Act II Scene 4: Night time, at the Castle of Hauven: Fierce Winds of Change (Drokan)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ashraf Sewailam

      Conductor: David Starobin

    25. Act II Scene 4: Night time, at the Castle of Hauven: The Lilies Bloom (Lyra, Corbin)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Sarah Shafer

      Conductor: David Starobin

    26. Act II Scene 4: Night time, at the Castle of Hauven: The Shadows Lift (Benjamin)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Portillo

      Conductor: David Starobin

    27. Act II Scene 4: Night time, at the Castle of Hauven: Together We Will Heal (Lyra, Frederic, Toke, Corbin, Brothers, Townfolk)

      Composer: Poul Ruders

      Ensemble: Bridge Academy Singers, Odense Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Alasdair Kent, Sarah Shafer

      Conductor: David Starobin


The Thirteenth Child is an opera in two acts, with music by Poul Ruders to a libretto by Becky & David Starobin. Commissioned by The Santa Fe Opera and the Odense Symfoniorkester, the libretto is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story, "The Twelve Brothers." The recording, made in Denmark and the USA, brings Ruders's gripping 80-minute score vividly to life.

The Thirteenth Child is Poul Ruders's fifth opera. The Danish composer is well known for his gripping dystopian opera, The Handmaid's Tale. The Thirteenth Child shares some of the dark world of The Handmaid's Tale, but also gives the listener a fairy tale, full of romance, magic, and transformation.

REVIEWS:

There is plenty of space for lyrical solo numbers in Ruders’ score, which veers between mid-Atlantic neoromanticism and something edgier and more expressionist in the orchestral interludes...it’s particularly Sarah Shafer in the role of Lyra who makes the most of his smoothly contoured vocal writing.

– Guardian (UK)

Fairy tales advance by surprising, generally magical events, and Ruders has invented captivating music for each. Ruders and his librettists have created an enchanting work in the genre of the fairy-tale opera, replete with spells, magic gardens, a quest to find 12 long-lost brothers, and a princess (the 13th child of the title) fated to undergo ill and happy adventures before she rescues her brothers and weds her prince.

There are two outstanding singers here in mezzo Tamara Mumford, as Gertrude, and lyric soprano Sarah Shafer as Lyra. Ruders furnishes the mother-daughter relationship with his most beautiful music, and the two singers are luminous in tone and moving emotionally. I must single out bass Matt Bochler as Hjarne, who encompasses an extraordinary vocal range extending from Fafner-like low notes to an eerie high falsetto. As the love interest, Prince Frederic, lyric tenor Alasdair Kent has a gleaming romantic tone perfectly suited to some of Ruders’s most romantic melodies."

– Fanfare Magazine - June, 2019