Category: reviews
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) ...
Munich premiere, A Sutured World
The broadcast recording of A Sutured World, for solo cello and orchestra, is online until 24 Nov. The work was premiered as part of the Musica Viva series in Munich on 25 Oct 2024 by the fabulous ‘cellist Nicolas Altstaedt with the incredible Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ed Gardner. Check out the link ...
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 ...
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 ...
Liza Lim 