Chronological Spotify Playlist
(compiled by Tim Rutherford-Johnson)
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Singing in Tongues (2021), HCR25CD/NMC
‘BEST OF 2021: 5 CLASSICAL MUSIC ALBUMS TO HEAR RIGHT NOW’ – THE NEW YORK TIMES
‘NEW AND NOTABLE RELEASE OF 2021’ – THE NEW YORKER
“The vocal writing, and the instrumental parts that seem indissolubly fused with it, is visceral, confrontational, and totally compelling, and the work takes on an exceptional power and directness; it’s hard to believe that Lim was just 24 when she composed it.” The Guardian
“Lim’s brilliant orchestral admixtures match the resonant depth of her themes, and an enduring association with the ensemble ELISION has ensured that performances, with judiciously chosen vocalists, are equal to the scores.” The Wire
“The music of Australian composer Liza Lim turns opera on its head, finding thrilling new paths for contemporary vocal music,” The Quietus
ELISION Ensemble
Disc 1: The Oresteia (1993)
Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Tyrone Landau, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Grant Smith, Jeannie van de Velde, Sandro Gorli (conductor)
Disc 2: Chang-O Flies to the Moon, scene 6 from Yuè Lìng Jié (Moon Spirit Feasting) (2000)
Deborah Kayser (soprano) (Chang-O, the Moon Goddess), Simon Hewett (conductor)
Mother Tongue (2005)
Piia Komsi (soprano), Jean Deroyer (conductor)
Disc 3: The Navigator (2008)
Omar Ebrahim, Deborah Kayser, Philip Larson, Talise Trevigne, Andrew Watts, Manuel Nawri (conductor)
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Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2020), KAIROS 0015020KAI
Ensemble Klangforum Wien, conductors Peter Rundel, Stefan Asbury
Violin soloist: Sophie Schafleitner
Bassoon soloist: Lorelei. Dowling
Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
Axis Mundi
Songs found in dream
‘An essential release of what will surely be one of the most important, powerful and original compositions of the decade. A transformative work in Lim’s career, you can hear in real time the disintegration of her previous compositional voice and its metamorphic re-emergence from the rubble. Shoring fragments (Janáček, Chinese astrology, the songs of extinct birds) against her ruin, this is a musical Wasteland for the age of the climate crisis.’ Tim Rutherford Johnson, Rambler Releases of 2020
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Agglomeration of Measurement (2020), Room40
Eugene Ughetti plays An Elemental Thing – for solo woodblock
1. Twin Resistance James Rushford
2. March Static Thomas Meadowcroft (with Claire Chase, flute)
3. TRANSDUCER (finale) Robin Fox and Eugene Ughetti
4. Tremolo Alexander Garsden
5. An Elemental Thing Liza Lim
6. Hypnagogics Anthony Pateras
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World-line (2019), NMC/ HCRCD21
ELISION: Daryl Buckley, Tristram Williams, Peter Neville
1. Richard Barrett: world-line
2. Timothy McCormack – subsidence
3. Liza Lim: Roda – The living circle (solo trumpet – Tristram Williams)
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Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik 2018
CD-Dokumentation
CD 2 includes
Ensemble Klangforum Wien, conductor Peter Rundel, violin soloist: Sophie Schafleitner
Liza Lim – Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2017-18), 2 mvts of 5
Movement 1: ‘Anthropogenic Debris’
Movement 2: ‘Retrograde Inversion’
other works by: Elnaz Seyedi, Johannes Maria Staud, Yann Robin, Gordon Kampe
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Speak, Be Silent (2019) NMC/ HCRCD20
Riot Ensemble, conductor Aaron Holloway-Nahum, violin soloist: Sarah Soviet
1 Chaya Czernowin – Ayre: Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust
and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of
2 Anna Thorvaldsdóttir – Ró
3 Mirela Ivičević – Baby Magnify/Lilith’s New Toy
4-6 Liza Lim – Speak, Be Silent
7 Rebecca Saunders – Stirrings Still II
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The wreck of former boundaries (2017) NMC/ HCR13CD
ELISION Ensemble conducted Carl Rosman with Wu Wei, sheng soloist
Liza Lim – How Forests Think (2016)
Aaron Cassidy – The wreck of former boundaries (2016)
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Darmstadt Aural Documents, Box 3 – Ensembles (2016) Neos 11230
CD7: Liza Lim – City of Falling Angels (2007)
Participants of the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2008
Christian Dierstein, conductor
CD set with works by Barden, Barrett, Becker, Billone, Brün, Cage, Carrillo, Eloy,
Erickson, Estrada, Evangelisti, Fritsch, Gentilucci, Grosskopf, Hoban, Hoffmann,
Ishii, Ives, Jelinek, Johnston, Jungheinrich, Kounadis, Lauck, Lehman, von Lilienstern,
Lim, Marchetti, Moguillansky, Poppe, Pousseur, Prins, Radulescu, Reudenbach,
Riehm, Rzewski, Wielecki, Xenakis
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Arditti String Quartet, Gifts and Greetings (2016) Winter & Winter 910 235-2
Liza Lim – The Weaver’s Knot, for string quartet
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Cikada Ensemble Live at Huddersfield Festival (2015) LAWO LWM1086
Cikada Ensemble conducted by
Christian Eggen
Liza Lim – Winding Bodies, 3 knots
The Heart’s Ear
& Jon Øivind Ness’ Gimilen
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Solitude (2015) Aeon Aecd 1647
Also on iTunes
Liza Lim – Invisibility for solo ‘cello
played by Séverine Ballon
other works by Mauro Lanza, Rebecca Saunders, James Dillon, Thierry Blondeau
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Liza Lim: Tongue of the Invisible
WERGO WER68592, (2013)
Download from Amazon & itunes
Uri Caine, Omar Ebrahim
Ensemble musikFabrik conducted
by André de Ridder.
libretto by Jonathan Holmes
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Liza Lim: Orchestral Works
hat[now]ART 185, (2013)
1. The Compass (2006)
Christoph Poppen, conductor, Carin Levine, flutes, William Barton, didgeridoo
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
2. Pearl, Ochre, Hair String (2009–10)
Lothar Zagrosek, conductor
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
3. The Guest (2010), Rupert Huber, conductor, Jeremias Schwarzer, recorders, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden
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Angels, WERGO WER 67812 (2013)
Liza Lim – Wild Winged-One played by Marco Blaauw (cornet)
Marco Blaauw with Markus Schwind, Michiel Braam, Christine Chapman, Bruce Collings, Ralf-Werner Kopp, Nathan Plante. Works by Jimmy Rowles – Liza Lim – Georg Friedrich Haas – Agata Zubel – Richard Ayres – Marco Blaauw – Martijn Padding – Carl Ruggles – Rebecca Saunders – Martin Smolka
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Liza Lim: The Heart’s Ear
Hat[now]ART 148, (2002)
Ensemble für neue Musik Zürich
conducted by Jürg Henneberger
Liza Lim portrait: Voodoo Child, Veil, Inguz,
The Heart’s Ear, Philtre, Diabolical Birds
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The Heart’s Ear (itunes link)
ABC Classics 456 687-2, (1999)
ELISION Ensemble & Ensemble Modern
conductors: Ingo Metzmacher; Simon Hewett; Dominique My; Sandro Gorli
Liza Lim portrait: Street of Crocodiles,
The Heart’s Ear, Voodoo Child, Inguz (fertility),
Koto, The Alchemical Wedding
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Liza Lim: The Oresteia
memory theatre/ opera
Dischi Ricordi, CRMCD 1030, (1994)
ELISION conducted by Sandro Gorli
singers: Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith
soundcloud link here
Women Composers I
Hat[now]ART 182, (2011)
Ensemble für neue Musik Zürich
Clarinet: Manfred Spitaler
Liza Lim – Sonorous Body
also works by Katharina Rosenberger, Ada Gentile, Carmen Maria Cârneci, Keiko Hisada
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Transference, HCR02CD, (2010)
ELISION Ensemble conducted Manuel Nawri
Séverine Ballon, violoncello
Liza Lim – Invisibility, Songs Found in Dream
also works by Mary Bellamy, Aaron Cassidy,
Bryn Harrison
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strange forces, HCR03CD, (2010)
ELISION
Tristram Williams, tpt
Liza Lim – Wild Winged One
also works by Richard Barrett, Aaron Cassidy, Timothy McCormack, Klaus K. Hübler,
Evan Johnson
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Sehnsucht Berlin. Absolut Medien
ISBN: 978-3-89848-967-6, (2009)
A documentary film about artists of the DAAD Residency programme in Berlin,
Directed by Peter Zach.
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Musica Viva Festival 2008, Vol 5,
Neos Music 10931, (2009)
Soloists of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra
Liza Lim – Ochred String; also works by Kaija Saariaho, Rebecca Saunders, Adriana Hölsky
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Bright Vessel, Tall Poppies TP202, (2009)
itunes
Stephen Robinson, oboe
Peter Neville, percussion
Liza Lim – Ming Qi (Bright Vessel)
also works by Brenton Broadstock, Matthew Hindson, Elena Kats-Chernin, Richard Mills, Shaun Rigney, Larry Sitsky, Michael Smetanin, Denis Vaughan
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Weaver of Fictions (itunes link)
ABC Classics 476 3180, (2008)
Genevieve Lacey, recorders,
Liza Lim – weaver of fictions
also works by Steve ‘Stelios’ Adam, Damian Barbeler, Brett Dean, Moritz Eggert, Arvo Part, John Rodgers, Bob Scott, Peter Sculthorpe, John Surman, Max de Wardener, Jason Yarde.
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Chamber Recital: Trio Surplus
Edition Zeitklang EZ60008, (2001)
Trio Surplus
Peter Veale, oboe & Olaf Tzschoppe
Liza Lim – Ming Qi (Bright Vessel)
also works by Harrison Birtwistle, Roger Redgate, Dieter Mack, Ian Willcock, Brian Ferneyhough, Bernfried Pröve, Iannis Xenakis
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the intertwining – the chasm, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, ISBN: 1-875792-27-9, (1998)
CD/Book; Essays Jacinta Le Plastrier, and Domenico De Clario, and Liza Lim; Performances by ELISION
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Strange Attractions (ituneslink),
ABC Classics 456 5372, (1997)
Sydney Alpha Ensemble conducted by Anthony Walker. Liza Lim – Diabolical Birds
also works by Anne Boyd, Mary Finsterer, Helen Gifford, David Lumsdaine, Michael Smetanin
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Burning House, Vox Australis, VAST022-2, (1996)
Satsuki Odamura, koto, voice
Liza Lim – Burning House
also works by Anne Boyd, Barry Conyngham,
Sarah de Jong, Tony Lewis, Anne Norman
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After the Fire, Vox Australis, VAST019-2, (1996)
ELISION Ensemble
Liza Lim – Amulet, Jennifer Curl, viola
also works by Chris Dench, Richard David Hames, Alessandro Melchiorre, Timothy O’Dywer, Michael Whiticker
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Garden of Earthly Desire,
Dischi Ricordi, CRMCD 1020, (1992)
ELISION conducted by Sandro Gorli
Liza Lim – Garden of Earthly Desire
also works by Sandro Gorli, Franco Donatoni, Mauro Cardi, Gerard Brophy
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Driftglass, one-M-one 1018, (1992)
ELISION Ensemble conducted Sandro Gorli
Liza Lim – Garden of Earthly Desire (live recording)
Other works by Chris Dench, Alistair McDonald
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