9120010282294

Liza Lim: Annunciation Triptych

WDR Sinfonieorchester; Cristian Macelaru; Emily Hindrichs

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Format: CD

Cat No: KAI0022003

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).

    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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Liza Lim: Annunciation Triptych: I. Sappho/ Bioluminescence
      • 2. II. Mary/ Transcendence after Trauma
      • 3. III. Fatimah/ Jubilation of Flowers