On November 9, 2019 Wishful Singing has also launched a CD of What about Mary . This came into being thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign. The CD contains largely the same repertoire as the theatrical concert and has been supplemented with repertoire that the singers both musically and in terms of life wisdom also connected to the figure of Maria. So one will hear work of Hildegard of Bingen and Maurice Duruflé as well.
Wishful Singing asked Annechien to write the introduction of the CD, which gave the stage director the title Viva Maria!
The CD ‘What about Mary?' is available in the webshop of Wishful Singing and through Spotify and ITunes.
Reviews CD What about Mary
De Volkskrant, Maartje Stokkers, December 12, 2019
On their new album the five singers of Wishful Singing bring a colorful tribute to Mary. The repertoire runs from medieval Hildegard von Bingen - in which the ensemble excels: pure, beautifully phrased strings of nuts - to Lady Madonna by The Beatles and new pieces.
NRC, Mischa Spel, December 12, 2019
In time for Christmas Wishful Singing brings on the new album What About Mary? (consequence of an earlier theatertour), an ode to the Virgin Mary - a choice that provides limitless material.
The five singers are versatile; in a classic like 'There is no rose' one hears their many years of classical training and in the song "My string" - horror ballad of a young mother who gathers some mental strength from her red string - their sense of humor. But the power of the taut, chrystal clear singing together is the best expressed in the classical or classically inspired songs.
