WDR Sinfonieorchester; Cristian Macelaru; Emily Hindrichs
Release Date: 19 May 2023
Label: Kairos Re ords
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9120010282294
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
"All is alive in Liza Lim's music, permeated by unstressed urgency. It's hard to think of anything less Kafkaesque than her Annunciation Triptych, in which she shatters the Romantic trope to pieces, rebuilds it in other ways, and uses the orchestra as a historical and cultural prism wherein the women - Sappho, Mary, and Fatimah - are portrayed as sources of transhistorical light in every movement. Each 'prism-orchestra' is, moreover, an assemblage itself, filtering its figure's radiance in unpredictable, sometimes revisionary ways." (Seth Brodsky).
WINNER: COMPOSER OF THE YEAR – OPUS KLASSIK AWARDS 2024
With this album, Lim presents an impressive spectrum of compositional diversity, masterfully interpreted by Emily Hindrichs and the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Cristian Macelaru.
"If Liza Lim isn't on your musical radar, I suggest you remedy that. I can't think of many other composers today who, on a grand scale, combine her mastery of colour and form with sensitive engagement to where we're at ecologically." – Gramophone
MusicWeb International Recording of the Month June 2023
"This recording of her (to date) magnum opus for orchestra, her Annunciation Triptych, if anything raises the bar even higher. It also forms an ideal introduction to her extraordinary, inclusive and visionary music […]. This is as good a piece of music as I have heard in recent years and I can't recommend it enough. Lim's world is a strange, murky, glittering, gorgeous one where one never knows what one will encounter next other than that it will be unexpected and fabulous. Surrender your expectations to it and prepare for wonder." - MusicWeb International
Tracklisting
Charlotte Seither
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Austin Wulliman; Ensemble Pamplemouse
SWR Vokalensemble, IRCAM, Yuval Weinberg
Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke, Bas Wiegers, Alessandro Baticci, Rafal Zalech
Marco Fusi
Vitalii Kyianytsia
Helena Rasker, Niek de Groot, Francisco Anguas
Kari Beate Tandberg
SWR Vokalensemble, IRCAM, Yuval Weinberg
Marco Fusi
Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke, Bas Wiegers, Alessandro Baticci, Rafal Zalech
Sofia Burgos, Sofia Jernberg, Zwerm
Andreas Skouras, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Pascal Dusapin, Unsuk Chin, Y
Mikael Rudolfsson, Olivier Vivares, Gerard Grisey, Luciano Berio, Eloain Lovis Hubner, Bernhard Gan
John Palmer, Delphine Henriet, Barbara Maurer, Hofer Symphoniker, Alinde Quartett, Johannes Klumpp,
