简介
在18世纪和19世纪，圣彼得堡的冬宫不仅收藏了著名艺术品，这些艺术品在十月革命后向公众开放，还举办了华丽的音乐活动。叶卡捷琳娜大帝建造的冬宫剧院至今仍然屹立不倒，那里盛大上演的歌剧是宫廷庆典的核心。这张专辑的灵感来源于克莱尔·吉恩维恩在2014年6月于荷兰莱顿大学获得创意与表演艺术博士学位的研究。她的研究展示了18世纪意大利器乐音乐通过文本反思的方式进行排练的传统，这种传统随着时间的推移几乎完全消失。专辑记录了声乐与器乐音乐之间的相互作用，重现了这种激发灵感的动力。
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg not only housed famous art collections, which were made accessible to the public after the October Revolution, but also hosted glamorous musical events. Catherine the Great had the Hermitage Theatre built, which still stands to this day, and the operas that were magnificently staged there were central to courtly festivities. The idea for this album came in conjuunction with Claire Genewein's elevation to Doctor of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Leiden in teh Netherlands in Jun