Description
LES CHEMINS
Tinka Pypker, sopraan
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren, piano
Choosing the right path through life is a challenge for everyone. Artists, singers, musicians,
or composers, for example, face uncertainties regarding success, recognition of talent,
competition, income, the spirit of the times, and the support—or lack thereof—of family members.
Some composers invented new forms of composition or embraced developments initiated by others.
Much has changed in the years between when Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874-1953) started
her career as a composer and the appearance of the first works composed by Mathilde Wantenaar (born 1993):
Léon Orthel, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, and Samuel Barber, along with the two female composers, contributed to the body of art songs without being completely swept away by the latest musical developments of their time.
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren and Tinka Pypker present a program of songs by these composers, with the idea
of finding one’s own path through life as a central theme. The rarely recorded songs of the Dutch composers Léon Orthel and Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman and the new voice of Mathilde Wantenaar find a place among more
familiar names.
