Discography

Portrait CDs

1. Liza Lim: String Creatures (2025)
NMC Recordings
JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell (cello), Rohan Dasika (double bass). Release date 26 Sept 2025

1. LIZA LIM #47 Portrait CD (2025)
Musica Viva, BR-Klassik
‘Never less than enthralling and with extraordinary expressive capacity, particularly for the soloist, A Sutured World is destined to become a signature work of the cello repertoire.’ (Limelight)

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
A Sutured World
Nicolas Altstaedt violoncello
Edward Gardner conductor
Mary – Transcendence after Trauma
Franck Ollu conductor
The Compass
Carin Levine flute
William Barton didgeridoo
Christoph Poppen conductor

2. Annunciation Triptych (2023)
KAIROS 0022003KAI
Emily Hindrichs, soprano
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor

‘extraordinary, inclusive and visionary music…’ MusicWeb International

3. Sex Magic (2023)
New Focus Recordings, FCR351
Claire Chase, contrabass flute, alto ocarina, Aztec ‘death whistle,’ pedal bass drum
Senem Pirler, live electronics
Levy Lorenzo, kinetic percussion, electronics & sound design
Nicholas Houfek, altar & production design

‘Liza Lim’s Sex and Magic, a sweeping masterwork evocative of the near mythic life-affirming power of women, redolent of legends, oracles and history woven into a scalp-tingling wonderscape featuring – among other instruments – the death-defying aural majestic sound of Chase’s contrabass flute.’ The Whole Note

4. Singing in Tongues (2021)
HCR25CD/NMC
‘Liza Lim turns opera on its head, finding thrilling new paths for contemporary vocal music.’ The Quietus

‘visceral, confrontational, and totally compelling’ The Guardian

5. Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2020) KAIROS 0015020KAI
‘An essential release of what will surely be one of the most important, powerful and original compositions of the decade.’
Rambler Releases of 2020

6. Tongue of the Invisible (2013) WERGO WER68592
‘One is tempted to call the composition a masterpiece, except that the word seems too egotistical for an artist so keen on collaboration and so attuned to the experiences of others.’ The New Yorker

7. Liza Lim: Orchestral Works (2013)
hat[now]ART 185

‘Her orchestral scores are concentrated energy maps’. The Wire

8. Liza Lim: The Heart’s Ear (2002)
Hat[now]ART 148

9. Liza Lim: The Heart’s Ear (1999)
ABC Classics 456 687-2

10. the Intertwining – the Chasm (1998)
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, ISBN: 1-875792-27-9

11. The Oresteia (1994)
Dischi Ricordi, CRMCD 1030

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