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Women are definitely the stronger sex. I’m pretty sure the majority of men would not have the wherewithal to endure what is expected of women – nor what they have been subjected to throughout history. I was lucky enough to grow up around very powerful women who inspired and shaped me, and I have been compelled to tell their stories ever since. I am a diehard feminist. (Jake Heggie) The two women represented on this recording might not seem to have a lot in common, but the Biblical Eve and the contemporary Rose are sisters to the core. They are dealing with what I find most interesting in all the characters I explore through dramatic music: a transformative crisis of identity. Questioning their lot in life in a moment of intensely vulnerable reflection. What could be more human? Eve-Song was Heggie’s very first commission, written in 1995 for soprano Kristin Clayton on original texts by Philip Littell. At the Statue of Venus was composed 10 years later (2005) to a libretto by playwright Terrence McNally, and premiered again by Kristin Clayton. Not a song cycle, it is a real dramatic scena about a successful businesswoman waiting for a blind date in a museum, standing next to the goddess of love: the “feminine ideal” of Western culture. Old and new concepts of women and their roles crisscross through both of these works.

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released January 25, 2021

Production: Zefir Records
Record & editing: Jakko van der Heijden, Concertstudio, Middelburg
Recorded at: Zeeuwse Concertzaal, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Recording dates: 30 & 31 October 2018, 19 & 20 February, 26 March 2019
Mastering: Walter Calbo, Concertstudio, Middelburg
Piano: Steinway D
Piano technique: Naomi van Schoot
Liner notes: Hein van Eekert
Layout: Meeuw
Model: Lilian Farahani
Photography: Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
Visual scenes and dramaturgy: Lilian Farahani and Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
Special thanks to all the donors who’s generosity made this project possible, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Noord-Holland, the Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst, Hotel de Sprenck (photo location), Studio Sophia (photo location), Theodora Plas (paintings) and the extra's Wendeline van Houten, Jasmijn Stoelman, Elvire Beekhuizen, Willem de Beer and Sietske Asselbergs who cooperated on the photo shoot for 'At the Statue of Venus

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