Dutch soprano Channa Malkin releases her new album This is not a lullaby with immersive record label TRPTK on 7 May 2021. Joined by cellist Maya Fridman and pianist Artem Belogurov, this will be Malkin’s second solo album, featuring song cycles which present her intimately personal perspective on motherhood with music by 20th and 21st century composers Mieczysław Weinberg, Sir John Tavener and her father Josef Malkin. Her choice of programme is bound together by the all-Russian text (Malkin’s mother tongue), family ties and cultural heritage through her father’s and Weinberg’s songs, and the distinctly female voice coming through the text in all three works with the poetry of leading writers including Gabriela Mistral and Anna Akhmatova set to music by Weinberg, Tavener and Josef Malkin.