Vanitas & Seven Sisters

by Jobina Tinnemans

Seven sisters performed by Fidan Aghayeva-Edler

Vanitas performed by the Frankland Quartet:
Sophie Appleton, Sarah Roberts, James Slater
and Daniel Hammersley

released November 22nd, 2024

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Christopher Fox writes about the music: "The seven movements of the piano piece "Seven Sisters" are also full of mystery. In Greek mythology the Seven Sisters were the daughters of Pleione and Atlas, the Titan who carried the world on his shoulders. The mythology tells us little about these women, however, except that they were so desirable that Zeus turned them into the group of celestial objects that we now know as the Pleiades constellation. In Jobina Tinnemans’ cycle of piano pieces, Seven Sisters, each of these women is given an individual identity, so that they become themselves rather than the objects of male desire. Each sister speaks, sometimes sings, perhaps even dances, through her own music. But there are also some shared sibling characteristics, a tendency to pause for thought, to break off in mid-sentence and, above all, a sense of gravity, of composure, that is sometimes quite human, at other times entirely unworldly."

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Tracklist

Vanitas (2024)

1 Vanitas No.1 03:08
2 Vanitas No.2 04:15
3 Vanitas No.3 03:02
4 Vanitas No.4 04:49

Seven Sisters (2020)

5 Seven Sisters No.1 Maia (49) 03:51
6 Seven Sisters No.2 Electra (43) 02:44
7 Seven Sisters No.3 Taygete (42) 02:25
8 Seven Sisters No.4 Alcyone (41) 00:57
9 Seven Sisters No.5 Celeano (37) 02:24
10 Seven Sisters No.6 Sterope (35) 02:23
11 Seven Sisters No.7 Merope (29) 02:25

Vanitas recorded at Blank Studios, Newcastle. Seven Sisters recorded at Clynfyw, Abercych. Music Production by Supergloss. Artwork by Maria van Oosterwijck / Fantesigners.

With thanks to the Hinrichsen Foundation, the Vaughan Williams Foundation and Berlin Senate Department for Cultural and Social Cohesion.