Channa Malkin - This Is Not A Lullaby (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Dutch soprano Channa Malkin releases her new album This is not a lullaby with immersive record label TRPTK on 7 May 2021. Joined by cellist Maya Fridman and pianist Artem Belogurov, this will be Malkin’s second solo album, featuring song cycles which present her intimately personal perspective on motherhood with music by 20th and 21st century composers Mieczysław Weinberg, Sir John Tavener and her father Josef Malkin. Her choice of programme is bound together by the all-Russian text (Malkin’s mother tongue), family ties and cultural heritage through her father’s and Weinberg’s songs, and the distinctly female voice coming through the text in all three works with the poetry of leading writers including Gabriela Mistral and Anna Akhmatova set to music by Weinberg, Tavener and Josef Malkin.

Channa Malkin said, “Becoming a mother has changed me in more ways than I can put into words. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been a blessing to work on this highly personal project inspired by my son Ezra.”

Channa Malkin is a singer known for her broad repertoire, from Italian baroque opera to Sephardic chamber music. She is a recent nominee of the Grachtenfestival Prize 2020 and debuted at the age of 17 as Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Dutch National Opera. She has since performed on the operatic and concert stages and in song recitals across Europe and the United States.

Described as an artist who “channels her unbridled creativity into socially engaged and highly personal programs” (Aart-Jan van de Pol, jury member Grachtenfestival Prize), Channa Malkin holds up an alternative but ultimately real experience of motherhood and womanhood in this album, going against the archetypal and one-dimensional trope of a mother rocking her child to sleep with soothing lullabies.

TRACKLIST

01. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: I. The child was left alone
02. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: II. And I am not alone
03. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: III. Little feet, little hands
04. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: IV. Rocking the cradle
05. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: V. Night
06. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: VI. A sorrowful mother
07. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: VII. The dew
08. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: VIII. Meekness
09. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: IX. Fear
10. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: X. A discovery
11. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Rocking the Child, Op. 110: XI. My song
12. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Five Russian songs: A letter
13. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Five Russian songs: To Polin'ka
14. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Five Russian songs: Don't leave me
15. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Five Russian songs: The fortune teller
16. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Five Russian songs: Lullaby
17. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Akhmatova Songs: I. Dante
18. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Akhmatova Songs: II. Pushkin and Lermontov
19. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Akhmatova Songs: III. Boris Pasternak
20. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Akhmatova Songs: IV. Couplet
21. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Akhmatova Songs: V. The Muse
22. Channa Malkin, Artem Belogurov, Maya Fridman - Akhmatova Songs: VI. Death



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