Chaya Czernowin: Heart Chamber

There is only the hint of a story; the opera unfolds through a chain of connected situations, whether imagined, dreamlike or real. Bringing this to life is music of fabulous subtlety, its textures... — Opera, June 2021 More…

Release Date: 5th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: 2110673
Label: Naxos

Czernowin: Heart Chamber

Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Noa Frenkel, Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Terry Wey (countertenor), Ensemble Nikel, SWR Experimentalstudio, Deutsche Oper Berlin (opera company)
Johannes Kalitzke

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The works of award-winning composer Chaya Czernowin have been performed worldwide at significant new music festivals and prestigious venues, and she is the first woman to be appointed composition professor at Harvard University. Commissioned by Deutsche Oper Berlin and widely acclaimed in the critical press, ‘Heart Chamber’ uses voice and stage as internalized sonic and visual landscapes to create a genuine multi-sensory musical experience. With only two characters and a hint of a narrative, this is a grand opera on the smallest of transformations, focusing on the intense beauty and vulnerabilities of falling in love. ‘It is seldom that audiences at the Deutsche Oper Berlin have listened with such rapture to a new commission’ (Online Merker). Director Uli Aumüller’s feature film ‘I did not rehearse to say I love you’ is also included and takes a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the opera.

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June 2021

There is only the hint of a story; the opera unfolds through a chain of connected situations, whether imagined, dreamlike or real. Bringing this to life is music of fabulous subtlety, its textures full of allusive significance...As She and He, Patrizia Ciofi and Dietrich Henschel are in excellent voice and consummately at ease with the idiom and its often-taxing demands. As their Internal Voices, Noa Frenkel and Terry Wey match them well.

18th March 2021

The vocal lines are mostly functional, but in the end it’s Czernowin’s luminous orchestral writing, with its ravishing electronic enhancements and a small chorus of voices in the pit, that compels attention and binds the work together, creating an aural world that’s far more involving than the one depicted on stage.

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