Elisabeth

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What would you talk about if you could meet your great-great-great-grandmother? What was it like being a woman in the 19th century? What has changed and what remains – maybe painfully – the same? 

 

Frieda Gustavs wrote four letters to her foremother Elisabeth, about strength, love, abuse, feminism – about everything that separates and connects them. The directness of her musical language, moving freely between avant-garde, romanticism and pop, makes for a powerful vehicle for a deeply personal performance. The pure, unadorned voices of Frieda Gustavs, Pitou Nicolaes and Jasmine Karimova are matched with a battalion of 16 trombones. It is hard to imagine a more rich and powerful sound.   

 

Frieda Gustavs, composition and voice 

Pitou Nicolaes, voice 

Jasmine Karimova, voice 

Sebastiaan Kemner, trombone 

Trombone Ensemble of the Royal Conservatoire of The Netherlands