Gordon: Ellen West (CD)
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Gordon: Ellen West (CD)
Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon
Artists: Nathan Gunn, Jennifer Zetlan, Djordje Nesio, Aeolus Quartet
Conductor: Lidiya Yankovskaya
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Bright Shiny Things
Release Date: July 30, 2020
Based on real life events, Ellen West plunges into the emotional, psychological, and physical challenges of a woman struggling with perceptions of her body, her relationship with food, her gender, and the world closing in around her.
Inspired by one of the earliest cases of existential analysis, poet Frank Bidart and composer Ricky Ian Gordon examine the lives of psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger and his patient, Ellen West. Bidart’s poem, which serves as the opera’s libretto, juxtaposes the clinical observations of Binswanger with fictitious entries of Ellen’s journals, illuminating a psychological portrait of a woman at war with her body.
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