Natasa Antoniazzo - Sehnsucht (Longing) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Lullaby, as a song sung along with the cradle motion to calm and lull the babies to sleep, associates music and words with comfort and security and creates strong emotional closeness. Many well known composers have devoted their artistry to create simple but marvellous lullabies.

This new from Natasa Antoniazzo (mezzo-soprano) and Mia Elezovic (piano) is a showcase of 20th century Croatian Composers, including Ivan Brkanovic, Josip Hatze, Ivo Lhotka Kalinski, Ivana Lang, Dragan Plamenac, and more. Natasa Antoniazzo took her first singing lessons with professor Mladen Häusler, and then studied singing in the class of professor Nada Puttar-Gold and professor Snježana Bujanovic-Stanislav at the Zagreb Music Academy. During her studies she performed in the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Natasha's Opera repertoire goes from Baroque through modern day works. She regularly appears at the Croatian State Radio Station and is an Assistant Professor in Zagreb.

Maria Lithell Flygh writes InchIt's hard to pinpoint what makes my heart sing when I read a poem, but that's what it takes to get me composing. Another source of inspiration is to picture the musicians and singers who will be performing the piece, which is the case for the material on this album. The pandemic brought certain things home to us what we truly long for. Encounters with other people, experiencing music and other art forms in groups, having good health, being together. While reading Nya dikter by Lotta Lotass, I realized that an undercurrent of longing ran throughout the poems. The images of chained circus elephants she chose to include in her collection reinforced this feeling and made me want to create music that combined the sense of longing and melancholy present in Swedish folk music with my own, more contemporary, expression.Inch