Thomas Pigor/Benedikt Eichhorn:
Sex

Franz Schubert:
Heidenröslein Op. 3/3, D. 257 (Goethe)
Die junge Nonne D. 828 (Craigher)

W. A. Mozart:
Das Veilchen, KV. 476 (Goethe)
Der Zauberer, KV. 472 (Weise)

Kurt Weill:
Die Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit (Brecht)

Arnold Schonberg:
“Brettl-Lieder” - Der genügsame Liebhaber (Hugo Salus)
“Das Buch der hängenden Gärten" - Das schöne Beet, Op. 15/10 (George)
Warnung Op. 3/3 (Dehmel)

Hugo Wolf:
Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens (Mörike)
Rat einer Alten (Mörike)

William Bolcom:
Toothbrush time (Arnold Weinstein) from “Cabaret songs” 1985

Alban Berg:
“Sieben frühe Lieder” - Die Nachtigall (Storm)

Robert Schumann:
Die Lotosblume, Op. 25/7 (Heine)

Johannes Brahms:
“49 Deutsche Volkslieder” - Och Moder, ich well en Ding han., WoO 33/33

Henry Purcell:
Man is for the woman made, Z.605/3 (Peter Motteux)
Sweeter than roses, Z.585/1

Jake Heggie:
“Natural selection, 1997” - Animal passion (Gini Savage)

Claude Debussy
Trois Chansons de Bilitis, L. 97 (Pierre Louys)

Hanns Eisler:
Sieben Lieder über die Liebe

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”.

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Recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, 18-20 September 2019