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Dirty Minds
Various composers

Olivia Vermeulen / Jan Philip Schulze

Dirty Minds

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917283525
Catnr: CC 72835
Release date: 21 February 2020
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"I was generally won over by the music making. It is superbly sung throughout by Olivia Vermeulen... It is an intimate, playful programme, beautifully performed"

Music web International, 07-9-2020
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About the album

Olivia Vermeulen: The topic: eroticism, lust, sex, power and violence, prostitution and murder, and all areas in the high-voltage field in between: set to music, complex and extremely topical. If the erotic may not be named, it slips into subtexts. With this album we want to highlight the intentions and meanings – and also the abysses – of these songs. One may turn away with a shudder or sit back and relax in the face of this achievement in sublimation. The fact that erotic abysses, desires and traumas have always been the cause of great art cannot be denied, nor the fact that art and music would not exist without “dirty minds”.

For the booklet with lyrics to the songs, please see this link.
Het debuutalbum van mezzosopraan Olivia Vermeulen en pianist Jan Philip Schulze is niet alledaags. Integendeel het is een ondeugend album, zoals de titel Dirty Minds al doet vermoeden. Een keur aan liederen uit heden en verleden passeert de revue. Het bijzondere duo gaat erotiek, sensualiteit en sex niet uit de weg. Met hun fascinatie voor dit thema hebben de twee een verrukkelijk album opgeleverd.

De opname bevat een prachtige verscheidenheid aan werken van Purcell en Mozart, liederen die bol staan van (verborgen) symboliek die verwijst naar erotische onderwerpen. En verder in de tijd zijn daar Schubert en Debussy, waarna de veel explicietere Kurt Weill en William Bolcom aan bod komen, om er maar eens twee te noemen. Er valt zoveel te ontdekken op dit nieuwe album! En juist dat was ook de lol die het duo had met dit onderwerp. Er is heel veel repertoire dat onder deze noemer bleek te vallen. Het aspect humor is een grote bindende factor voor Olivia Vermeulen en Jan Philip Schulze om samen te werken.

Olivia Vermeulen bouwt al jarenlang aan een bloeiende internationale carrière. Ze treedt overal ter wereld op in operahuizen en concertzalen. De zangeres werkte samen met onder meer René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Andrea Marcon, Iván Fischer, Markus Stenz, Frans Brüggen en vele anderen. In 2019 debuteerde ze bij de Opéra National de Paris in Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio gedirigeerd door René Jacobs, een productie waarin ze datzelfde jaar al zong bij de Berliner Staatsoper. Een jaar eerder debuteerde Olivia bij de Berliner Philharmoniker in een uitvoering van Mozarts Mis in c mineur onder leiding van Daniel Harding.

Pianist Jan Philip Schulze heeft succes als solist, kamermuziekpartner en begeleider van liederen. Hij geeft wereldwijd, tot in het Verre Oosten aan toe, concerten en is expert in hedendaagse muziek. Ook is hij actief als docent, uitgever en organisator. Behalve met Olivia werkt de pianist samen met operasterren als Juliane Banse, Annette Dasch, Rachel Harnisch, Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann, Johan Reuter en Robert Dean Smith.
Olivia Vermeulen: das Thema: Erotik, Lust, Sex, Macht und Gewalt, Prostitution und Mord und alle Bereiche im Spannungsfeld dazwischen: Vertonung, komplex und hochaktuell. Wenn die Erotik nicht benannt werden darf, so gleitet sie in Subtexte. Mit diesem Album wollen wir die Intentionen und Bedeutungen - und auch die Abgründe - dieser Lieder aufzeigen. Man kann sich mit Schaudern abwenden oder sich angesichts dieser Leistung in Sublimierung zurücklehnen und entspannen. Dass erotische Abgründe, Sehnsüchte und Traumata schon immer die Ursache für große Kunst waren, lässt sich nicht leugnen, ebenso wenig wie die Tatsache, dass Kunst und Musik ohne "schmutzige Gedanken" nicht existieren würden.

Artist(s)

Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo soprano)

Praised for the “exceptional wealth of colors” of her voice (Opernwelt) and her singing of “exquisite, inexhaustibale sweetness” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Olivia Vermeulen has established herself as one of the leading vocal artists in today’s classical music world. Her opera and concert performances in a wide range of repertoire from early music to 21st century works have stunned audiences around the world. Olivia Vermeulen has frequently worked with eminent conductors such as René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Pablo Heras-Casado, Daniel Harding, Marek Janowski, Michael Schønwandt, Lothar Zagrosek, Andrea Marcon, Giovanni Antonini, Iván Fischer, Markus Stenz, Frans Brüggen, Reinhard Goebel, Alessandro de Marchi, and Tomáš Netopil. She has appeared with many of the world’s most distinguished orchestras, including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, London...
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Praised for the “exceptional wealth of colors” of her voice (Opernwelt) and her singing of “exquisite, inexhaustibale sweetness” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Olivia Vermeulen has established herself as one of the leading vocal artists in today’s classical music world. Her opera and concert performances in a wide range of repertoire from early music to 21st century works have stunned audiences around the world.
Olivia Vermeulen has frequently worked with eminent conductors such as René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Pablo Heras-Casado, Daniel Harding, Marek Janowski, Michael Schønwandt, Lothar Zagrosek, Andrea Marcon, Giovanni Antonini, Iván Fischer, Markus Stenz, Frans Brüggen, Reinhard Goebel, Alessandro de Marchi, and Tomáš Netopil. She has appeared with many of the world’s most distinguished orchestras, including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, and Camerata Salzburg, and has been invited to appear at leading festivals including the Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, Ruhrtriennale, the Festival International d’Opéra Baroque & Romantique de Beaune, Munich Opera Festival, Musikfest Berlin, Kissinger Sommer, Rheingau Music Festival, and Mozartwoche Salzburg.
In 2019 Vermeulen celebrated her début at the Opéra National de Paris in a Romeo Castellucci landmark production of Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio conducted by René Jacobs, a production she sang at the Berlin Staatsoper as well in the same year. 2018 saw her début with the Berliner Philharmoniker in a performance of Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor conducted by Daniel Harding. Her interpretation of the role of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, performed on a 2018 worldwide tour with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra lead by René Jacobs, received rave reviews.

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Jan Philip Schulze (piano)

Pianist Jan Philip Schulze has enjoyed success as a soloist, chamber music partner and accompanist for lieder, giving concerts extensively across Europe as well as in the Far East. An expert in contemporary music, he is also active as a teacher, editor and organizer. With Juliane Banse, Annette Dasch, Rachel Harnisch, Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann, Johan Reuter, Robert Dean Smith, Sarah Maria Sun, Violeta Urmana and Olivia Vermeulen, he has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Schubertiad in Schwarzenberg, the festivals in Lucerne, Munich, Edinburgh and Tokyo, La Scala in Milan, the opera houses in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Berlin Philharmonie. He has given many premiere performances and worked closely alongside such composers as Hans Werner...
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Pianist Jan Philip Schulze has enjoyed success as a soloist, chamber music partner and accompanist for lieder, giving concerts extensively across Europe as well as in the Far East. An expert in contemporary music, he is also active as a teacher, editor and organizer.
With Juliane Banse, Annette Dasch, Rachel Harnisch, Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann, Johan Reuter, Robert Dean Smith, Sarah Maria Sun, Violeta Urmana and Olivia Vermeulen, he has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Schubertiad in Schwarzenberg, the festivals in Lucerne, Munich, Edinburgh and Tokyo, La Scala in Milan, the opera houses in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Berlin Philharmonie.
He has given many premiere performances and worked closely alongside such composers as Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Schnebel, Jörg Widmann, Manfred Trojahn, Nikolaus Brass and many others in the course of time. He has also performed piano concertos by Xenakis, Staude and Schöllhorn with the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
Always keen to discover unknown or adventurous repertoire, Jan Philip Schulze has built up an extensive and multi-faceted discography in recent years. As well as highly acclaimed recordings of piano works by Jörg Widmann and Hans Werner Henze, he has performed early Classical music with the Trio Amédée, piano sextets from France and lieder repertoire from Schubert to Carl Nielsen and Paul Hindemith.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the...
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Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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Alban Berg

Alban Berg was an Austrian composer. Berg studied from 1904 to 1910 under Arnold Schoenberg and together with his teacher and fellow student Anton Webern he is part of the Second Viennese School. Berg married with Helene Nahowski (1885-1976), a singer who was a daughter from Anna Nahowski and, allegedly, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. At first, Berg applied a free atonality, but later he started developing strict twelve tone techniques and combined these to a style which, despite its expressionistic character, reminds of the Late Romantic music of Gustav Mahler. 
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Alban Berg was an Austrian composer. Berg studied from 1904 to 1910 under Arnold Schoenberg and together with his teacher and fellow student Anton Webern he is part of the Second Viennese School. Berg married with Helene Nahowski (1885-1976), a singer who was a daughter from Anna Nahowski and, allegedly, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.

At first, Berg applied a free atonality, but later he started developing strict twelve tone techniques and combined these to a style which, despite its expressionistic character, reminds of the Late Romantic music of Gustav Mahler.


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Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed. Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of non-traditional tonalities. The prominent French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant Among his most famous works are his Clair de Lune, his Three Nocturnes...
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Claude Debussy was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed.
Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of non-traditional tonalities. The prominent French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant Among his most famous works are his Clair de Lune, his Three Nocturnes and his orchestral piece La Mer.


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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in...
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Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.
In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favour of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.
Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of ‘exaltation’ and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.

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Henry Purcell

Westminster Abbey is not just the place where British monarchs were crowned, it's also the place where many English great men were burried. Among those was also Henry Purcell. This final resting place had a double meaning for him: firstly, with his status as a composer he deserved a spot in the abbey, but secondly this was also the location where he worked during the reign of Charles II and William & Mary.  Most people will recognise the last aria of Purcell's beloved opera Dido and Aeneas: 'Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.' More abstract, but less trenchant are his brilliant Fantasias (for viola da gamba) which Purcell composed in the early 1680s. These are small, at times daringly expirimental works, which...
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Westminster Abbey is not just the place where British monarchs were crowned, it's also the place where many English great men were burried. Among those was also Henry Purcell. This final resting place had a double meaning for him: firstly, with his status as a composer he deserved a spot in the abbey, but secondly this was also the location where he worked during the reign of Charles II and William & Mary. Most people will recognise the last aria of Purcell's beloved opera Dido and Aeneas: "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate." More abstract, but less trenchant are his brilliant Fantasias (for viola da gamba) which Purcell composed in the early 1680s. These are small, at times daringly expirimental works, which he carefully dated. Yet, Purcell mostly developed himself as a composer of vocal music, with numerous odes, 'welcome songs', motets (anthems), songs for domestic use (both sacred and secular, both monophonic and polyphonic) and music for theatre.


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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the 'Three Bs' of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.   Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become...
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.

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Hugo Wolf

Together with Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf can be considered as one of the greatest composers of Late Romantic lieder. Both of them followed the tradition of Schubert and Schumann, but intensified the gerne with Wagner's techniques of text declamation and harmonic development. What makes Wolf's song cycles special, is the fact that often they are devoted to a single poet, like in his Mörike-Lieder (1889), Eichendorff-Lieder (1889) en Goethe-Lieder (1890). For each cycle, he spent a considerable time studying the text to create the best matching music. His accomodation of musical structure, harmonic subteties and pianistic texture are all inseperable from the lyrics. Partly due to his psychological sophistication his songs can be heard as miniature operas. Even though he did start writing...
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Together with Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf can be considered as one of the greatest composers of Late Romantic lieder. Both of them followed the tradition of Schubert and Schumann, but intensified the gerne with Wagner's techniques of text declamation and harmonic development. What makes Wolf's song cycles special, is the fact that often they are devoted to a single poet, like in his Mörike-Lieder (1889), Eichendorff-Lieder (1889) en Goethe-Lieder (1890). For each cycle, he spent a considerable time studying the text to create the best matching music. His accomodation of musical structure, harmonic subteties and pianistic texture are all inseperable from the lyrics. Partly due to his psychological sophistication his songs can be heard as miniature operas.
Even though he did start writing on several full-fledged operas, it never became a true succes. Only his opera Der Corregidor (1896) was completed. Things went downhill from there. In 1897, Wolf had a nervous breakdown as a consequence of a syphilis infection he had since his teens. After a failed suicide attempt, he was admitted to a clinic in Vienna. The somber Michelangelo-Lieder (1898) would become his last completed composition. Wolf died in 1903, three weeks before his 43st birthday.


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Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad 'Mack the Knife'. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose. He also wrote several works for the concert hall. He became a United States citizen on August 27, 1943.
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Kurt Weill was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife".
Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose. He also wrote several works for the concert hall. He became a United States citizen on August 27, 1943.

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Jake Heggie

American composer Jake Heggie has penned some of the most beautiful vocal music of our day, and his operas and songs have been championed by some of today’s foremost artists, including Joyce di Donato, Susan Graham and Frederica von Stade on the acclaimed AVIE release, Passing By (AV 2198). On The moon’s a gong, hung in the wild, Grammy-nominated Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager is joined by the great 
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American composer Jake Heggie has penned some of the most beautiful vocal music of our day, and his operas and songs have been championed by some of today’s foremost artists, including Joyce di Donato, Susan Graham and Frederica von Stade on the acclaimed AVIE release, Passing By (AV 2198). On The moon’s a gong, hung in the wild, Grammy-nominated Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager is joined by the great
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Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, but perhaps also one of the least listened to. Strikingly, Schoenberg was self-educated, even though his music is imbedded in complex music theory. It was Schoenberg who definitely departed from tonality and he developed the twelve tone technique. In this composition style, one has to use every twelve tones of the scale, before one can be repeated. The struggle to adhere to this dogma is clearly audible: his music is tense, hectic and particularly acute - and therefore at times not that accesible to occasional listeners.  Nevertheless, his music and his liberation of tonality had an enormous impact on all composers that came after him. Together with the...
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Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, but perhaps also one of the least listened to. Strikingly, Schoenberg was self-educated, even though his music is imbedded in complex music theory. It was Schoenberg who definitely departed from tonality and he developed the twelve tone technique. In this composition style, one has to use every twelve tones of the scale, before one can be repeated. The struggle to adhere to this dogma is clearly audible: his music is tense, hectic and particularly acute - and therefore at times not that accesible to occasional listeners.

Nevertheless, his music and his liberation of tonality had an enormous impact on all composers that came after him. Together with the music of his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern, his style is often referred to as the Second Viennese School, parallel to the First Viennese School of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, who, in a similar vein, changed the history of music for good.

His most performed works are his string sextet Verklärte Nacht, his five Orchestra pieces op. 16, and his opera Moses und Aron. The development of Schoenberg's music can be heard in his Five String Quartets in particular.


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Press

I was generally won over by the music making. It is superbly sung throughout by Olivia Vermeulen... It is an intimate, playful programme, beautifully performed
Music web International, 07-9-2020

The true premise of this recital may be to display Vermeulen’s versatility; she is a rare specialist in both the 18th and 21st centuries, and she sings everything in between with understanding and character. Oh, did I mention that her voice is beautiful?
Fanfare, 24-7-2020

A more than convincing 'debut CD' that cheerfully focuses on the 'dirty minds' of composers and is also beautifully recorded.
De nieuwe Muze, 05-6-2020

Dirty Minds is an album that one will not soon forget. Super original, in approach and composition.
De Gelderlander, 25-4-2020

A more than convincing 'debut CD' that cheerfully focuses on the 'dirty minds' of composers and is also beautifully recorded.
Luister, 10-4-2020

Listen to her beautiful legato here. Jan Philip Schulze always manages to find the right atmosphere in all genres.
Opera Nederland, 25-3-2020

Still, there is much more to say about Vermeulen's wonderful album Dirty minds, who has a flourishing opera career, especially in Germany, and pianist Jan Philip Schulze. Straightforward is fun, but Vermeulen and Schulze are just as interested in the power of the suggestion - a dirty mind is a joy forever.
NRC, 19-3-2020

Fascinating to hear how this mezzo colors her voice and diction according to text and music.
Opus Klassiek, 10-3-2020

The transition from one song to another is sometimes a bit of a switch, but it makes it a special bouquet.
Mania, 06-3-2020

Sensuality and desire are splashing at Vermeulen and Schulze.
De Volkskrant, 27-2-2020

Vermeulen sings about thirty songs and her kameolontic voice colors superbly with every changing atmosphere. Beautiful singing is not necessarily the goal, text interpretation and character all the more.
Trouw, 21-2-2020

Dirty Minds contains songs in which great composers present themselves from their most 'sensual' side.
Luister, 17-1-2020

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01.
Sex
04:01
(Thomas Pigor) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
02.
Heidenröslein Op. 3/3 D. 257
01:46
(Franz Schubert) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
03.
Das Veilchen KV. 476
02:16
(W. A. Mozart) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
04.
Die Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit
03:04
(Kurt Weill) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
05.
Der Zauberer KV. 472
02:01
(W. A. Mozart) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
06.
Der genügsame Liebhaber, from 'Brettl-Lieder'
02:17
(Arnold Schönberg) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
07.
Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens
01:26
(Hugo Wolf) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
08.
Rat einer Alten
01:50
(Hugo Wolf) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
09.
Toothbrush Time, from 'Cabaret Songs' 1985
03:18
(William Bolcom) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
10.
Das schöne Beet Op. 15/10, from 'Das Buch der hängenden Gärten'
02:07
(Arnold Schönberg) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
11.
Die Nachtigall from “Sieben frühe Lieder”
01:52
(Alban Berg) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
12.
Die Lotosblume Op. 25/7
01:38
(Robert Schumann) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
13.
Och Moder, ich well en Ding han. WoO 33/33 from “49 Deutsche Volkslieder”
01:58
(Johannes Brahms) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
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Man is For the Woman Made Z.605/3
01:21
(Henry Purcell) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
15.
Sweeter Than Roses Z.585/1
03:13
(Henry Purcell) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
16.
Animal passion from “Natural selection, 1997'
03:09
(Jake Heggie) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
17.
Die junge Nonne D. 828
04:41
(Franz Schubert) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
18.
Warnung Op. 3/3
01:48
(Arnold Schönberg) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
19.
Trois Chansons de Bilitis L. 97: La flûte de Pan
02:23
(Claude Debussy) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
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Trois Chansons de Bilitis L. 97: La chevelure
03:02
(Claude Debussy) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
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Trois Chansons de Bilitis L. 97: Le tombeau des Naïades
02:27
(Claude Debussy) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
22.
Sieben Lieder über die Liebe: Lied eines Freudenmädchens
02:11
(Hanns Eisler) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
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Sieben Lieder über die Liebe: Goethe-Fragment
01:18
(Hanns Eisler) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
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Sieben Lieder über die Liebe: Heiratsannonce- Liebeslied eines Kleinbürgermädchens
01:02
(Hanns Eisler) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
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Sieben Lieder über die Liebe: Verfehlte Liebe
01:16
(Hanns Eisler) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
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Sieben Lieder über die Liebe: Heiratsannonce- Liebeslied eines Grundbesitzers
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(Hanns Eisler) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
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Sieben Lieder über die Liebe: Lied der Kupplerin
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(Hanns Eisler) Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze
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Sieben Lieder über die Liebe: Und endlich
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(Hanns Eisler) Jan Philip Schulze, Olivia Vermeulen
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