Classical Music Discoveries
staff@ClassicalMusicDiscoveries.com
  • Home
  • Store
    • Gift Card
    • Handmade Music Blankets
    • Season 19 Digital Downloads
    • Season 18 Digital Downloads
    • Season 17 Digital Downloads
    • CDs
    • LP
  • Play My Music
  • Donate
  • Advertise
  • Jobs
  • Season 19 Shows
  • >
  • Reiko Füting: Mechthild

Reiko Füting: Mechthild

SKU: 19207
$14.99
$8.99
$8.99
On Sale
Unavailable
per item

Through images that reflect the “flowing light of divinity,” librettist Christian Lehnert adapted Mechthild von Magdeburg’s own texts into a narrative that consists of three sections to emphasize the relevance of Mechthild today. 

In his expansive liner notes, Lehnert detailed the breakdown of each section, “In the first part, the Beguine, fatally ill, returns to her ‘home.’ In a vision, she experiences erotic unity with divinity. External perspective and internal space confront each other. 

"In the second part, Mechthild experiences the opposite: lonesome godlessness. She experiences this state as the abyss of death, as an infinite fall. At the same time, this experience cleanses all thinking and believing; it cleanses herself and any imagination of God. Mechthild experiences a negation of God in order to find God. In a vision of hell, she descends to the deepest abyss. 

"In the third part, Mechthild lives in a monastery. She now finds God in the people whom she serves, as a caregiver. Mechthild’s faith moves – metaphorically speaking – through fire: warmth and light were created, and the loss of herself became a deepening of her own existence. Transformed, she now finds God everywhere. She does not find God as thought or faith, but rather as a life force.” 


Mechthild Tracklist

Reiko Füting – Mechthild (2022)

Act I: Verwunden, vereint/ Wond, United

1. Scene 1: Ankunft/ Arrival [4:40]

2-5. Scene 2: Die Kranke/ The Invalid [7:53]

6-15. Scene 3: Im Gemach der Gottheit/ In the Room of Divinity [12:53]

Act II: Die Gottesfremde/ The Alienated

16-17. Scene 4: Abgekippt/ Dumped [11:54]

18. Scene 5: Wo bist du dann? Where Will You Then Be? [3:43]

19. Scene 6: Höllenfahrt/ Descent into Hell [8:54]

20. Scene 7: Nichts/ Naught [3:49]

Act III: Nach Gott/ After God

21-22. Scene 8: Im Krankensaal/ In the Ward [10:90]

23. Scene 9: Feuer/ Fire [8:17]

Total Time: 73:15

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Add to Cart
(C)Classical Music Discoveries 2004-2023