Category: CD release
String Creatures, NMC CD
Hot on the heels of the BR-Klassik CD, NMC Recordings have released a wonderful album collecting together some of my key pieces for string quartet and solo low strings. These recordings celebrate my close collaboration with the JACK Quartet who bring a stunningly organic aliveness to performances of String Creatures (2022), The Weaver’s Knot (2014) ...
Orchestral works CD, BR-Klassik #47
I’m intensely grateful to all at Musica Viva Munich: Winrich Hopp, Pia Steigerwald ❤️, Giovanni Michelini; to photographer Astrid Ackermann; all at BR-Klassik including Thomas Becker; recording producers: Jörg Moser, Clemens Deller, Wolfgang Schreiner; sound engineers Christiane Voitz, Winfried Messmer, Peter Urban, and to Christoph Stickel, legendary mastering engineer who brought it all together; most ...
solo string music on recent CDs
I’ve had the privilege of working with many superb string players with whom I’ve developed my ear for the qualities and capacities of string as a deeply magical substance. Here are 3 recent solo CD releases from the awesome Karin Hellqvist (LAWO), Louise McMonagle (Delphian) and Sarah Saviet (Coviello). Karin Hellqvist plays One and the ...
Orchestral opulence: Annunciation Triptych
Reviews of Annunciation Triptych CD (WDR Sinfonie Orchester, conductor Cristian Măcelaru, soprano Emily Hindrichs) & of the concert with Mary/ Transcendence after Trauma by Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Musica Viva Munich, 12 May, 2023). #update 10 June, a few more CD reviews (in English) extracts from some of the longer CD reviews (in translation via ...
Album release: Annunciation Triptych
I’m thrilled to have a new CD out on the KAIROS label [they previously published my work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus in 2020]. Annunciation Triptych is a 45-minute orchestral 3-part cycle (the last work includes soprano and adlib parts for singing audience) that celebrates three iconic female spiritual figures: The Ancient Greek poet Sappho, ...
CD release | radio portrait, March 2019
New CD – Speak, be Silent 15 March 2019: new CD release from the Riot Ensemble on HCR/NMC with works by Chaya Czernowin, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Mirela Ivičević and myself. Violin soloist Sarah Saviet and the Riot Ensemble conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum give a very passionate account of Speak, Be Silent. CD launch concert: ...
September: 2 CDs and a premiere
I’m excited about September. It brings the launch of two CDs embodying the fruit of special collaborations with the musicians of the Cikada Ensemble and with the ‘cellist Séverine Ballon. Cikada will launch their disc, which was recorded live at last year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, on 12 September at the Ultima Festival in Oslo. ...
5* recommendation for HatArt disc in NZM
Dietrich Heißenbüttel, Empfehlung: Liza Lim Orchestral Works, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 2/2015 or online link A chant provides the pitch; an invocation. Merely a short sequence of four descending notes, yet highly unusual for a CD of orchestral works: it is neither the sound of European art music nor one defined by the tempered chromatic scale. Liza ...
Concentrated energy maps. Reviews of HatArt Orchestral Works CD
Updates (other reviews) 1/3/15. Gordon Kerry has a few things to say about Australian politics & cultural insularity as well the CD. Liza Lim: Orchestral Works, The Music Trust 9/2/15. Another review of the HatArt CD: ambitious, eruptive orchestral works. Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 6 Feb 2015. Liza Lim, Orchestral Works, Hat[now]Art CD review Julian ...
Hat Art Orchestral Works CD
The CD of my orchestral works is finally officially out on Hat Art and offers perhaps a less well-known view of my work. It includes The Compass for orchestra with solo parts for flute and didgeridoo, co-commissioned by the Sydney Symphony and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra; Pearl, Ochre, Hair String for orchestra which features a ...
CDs come in threes; SWR merger protest & petition
You can wait for years – for CDs, for buses – and suddenly they come in threes… Hot off the presses is Marco Blaauw’s Angels on WERGO which follows the release of Tongue of the Invisible earlier this year on the same label. Both CDs have come in for praise from Alex Ross on his blog and in The New ...
Tongue of the Invisible CD released on WERGO
I’m very excited that the Tongue of the Invisible CD is now out on WERGO (WER 68592). This is issued in the Music of Our Time/Edition musikFabrik series and documents a beautiful collaboration between myself, writer Jonathan Holmes, musicians Omar Ebrahim, Uri Caine, Ensemble musikFabrik and conductor André de Ridder. The CD is a live recording ...
Sonorous Body on Hat Hut CD
‘Sonorous Body’, a composition that is brought to life by the wild adventures of the solo clarinet. Physiology meets soul and tone meets color as the piece ends in consummate splendor. Raul D’Gama Rose, All About Jazz ‘Wild adventures of the solo clarinet’ – I like to think of instruments as personages in some way – characters ...
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