The music of the stage work SEMMELWEIS is reimagined in a 20-track, hour-long studio album, featuring vocalist Charlotte Mundy, The Rhythm Method string quartet, violinist Leah Asher, cellist Meaghan Burke, double bassist Ranjit Prasad, bass clarinetist Chrystof Knoche, and composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist Ray Lustig. Composed and produced by Ray Lustig, with co-production and engineering by Maximilien Hein, and additional engineering and production by Drew Schlingman. Recorded at Manicburg-on-Hudson (NYC) and The Hit Factory (NYC).
SEMMELWEIS is inspired by the story of nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), who discovered the cure for a devastating epidemic but could not convince the world of the simple solution, and died alone in an asylum. Dr. Semmelweis had been the first to see an unthinkable truth: that the deadly disease was passing from the bodies of the dead to healthy mothers on the unwashed hands of the doctors themselves.
EXPECTED RELEASE in Spring of 2025. Listen to Selected Tracks
