In grosser Sehnsucht

directors Mirjam Koen, Gerrit Timmers
set design Gerrit Timmers
soloist Charlotte Riedijk
music the Osiris Trio with Peter Brunt

Of all the works Torstensson wrote, this was the least raw, the most sweet-sentimental: the historical women fitted the styles like a glove: five songs, five characters, five different personalities, which were all brought to life very artfully by the virtuoso Osiris Trio. The musicians seemed to have to make no effort in shifting musically from baroque to early-modern, from voluptuous waltz to static recitative accompaniment.