Tongue of the Invisible

Track 2 from: ELISION cond. Sandro Gorli, Dischi Ricordi, CRMCD 1030, 1994
'The Oresteia', memory-theatre/opera (1991-93)
ELISION conducted by Sandro Gorli; singers: Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith 

Scene 2 - Memory Spills From The Split Skulls Of Clytemnestra And Agamemnon

Track 3 from: ELISION cond. Sandro Gorli, Dischi Ricordi, CRMCD 1030, 1994
'The Oresteia', memory-theatre/opera (1991-93)
ELISION conducted by Sandro Gorli; singers: Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith 

Scene 3: Cassandra - The Banquet

Pearl, Ochre, Hair String (excerpt)

ELISION Ensemble conducted by Sandro Gorli

Garden Of Earthly Desire (1988)

Machine for Contacting the Dead (1999-2000)
For 27 musicians including 2 soloists (Bass Cl/Cbass Cl & Vc)
Bass Fl/picc, Fl/picc, 2 Ob (2. Cor Ang), 2 Cl in A, Bass Cl/Cbass (soloist), Bsn, Cbsn – Hn, 2 Tpt, Alto Tbn, Trbn, Tuba – 3 Perc – Harp, Piano – 2 Vln, 2 Vla, 2 Vc (1. soloist), D bass
Duration: 38′
Commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain
Premiere: 20 February 2000, Paris, Cité de la Musique,
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Alain Billard (Bass Cl/Cbass Cl),
Pierre Strauch (Violoncello), conductor Jonathan Nott
more info: limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/2…999-2000/
http://lizalimcomposer.wordpress.com/

Mvt 1 Machine For Contacting The Dead: 'Memory Palace'

Machine for Contacting the Dead (1999-2000)
For 27 musicians including 2 soloists (Bass Cl/Cbass Cl & Vc)
Bass Fl/picc, Fl/picc, 2 Ob (2. Cor Ang), 2 Cl in A, Bass Cl/Cbass (soloist), Bsn, Cbsn – Hn, 2 Tpt, Alto Tbn, Trbn, Tuba – 3 Perc – Harp, Piano – 2 Vln, 2 Vla, 2 Vc (1. soloist), D bass
Duration: 38′
Commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain
Premiere: 20 February 2000, Paris, Cité de la Musique,
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Alain Billard (Bass Cl/Cbass Cl),
Pierre Strauch (Violoncello), conductor Jonathan Nott
more info: limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/2…999-2000/

Mvt 2 Machine: 'Spirit Weapons I'

Mvt 4 Machine: 'Spirit Weapons II'

Mvt 5 Machine, 'Ritual Bells'

Piano solo commissioned by the Ian Potter Foundation for Marilyn Nonken and premiered by her at the Musica Nova Festival, Helsinki, February 2009. The 4 movements are: I. Autumn, 6′ II. Winter, 6′ III. Spring, 7′ IV. Summer (Sema), 10′ (starts at 18'22). info at: http://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/the-four-seasons-after-cy-twombly-2009/

The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly), 2008 - 09

Tristram Williams, trumpet & Peter Neville, percussion
ELISION concert, 24 september 2014, Clothworker's Hall, University of Leeds

Ehwaz (Journeying), 2010 for trumpet & percussion

Solo Bassoon: Alban Wesly
live recording, Strasbourg 2014
info: http://lizalimcomposer.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/axis-mundi/

Liza Lim: Axis Mundi (2012-14)for solo bassoon

fanfare for orchestra originally commissioned by the Sydney Symphony/Gianluigi Gelmetti with the support of the Australia Council and Symphony Australia.  https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/flying-banner-after-wang-to-2005/

Liza Lim - Flying Banner, (after Wang To), (2005)

Solo for Tenor Ganassi recorder written for and performed by  Genevieve Lacey (dedicated to the writer Patricia Sykes) and a companion piece to the more well-known/more often played 'Weaver of fictions', (2007). Some materials from this solo appear within 'The Navigator', opera (2008) - originally I thought it might be played as an epilogue to the opera, just like 'weaver of fictions', for Alto Ganassi recorder is played as the prelude but that wasn't how it was used.  The piece was also incorporated in the installation project 'TON' (Sabrina Hoelzer, Volker Maerz, Liza Lim, 2008). A short video excerpt is at: https://www.facebook.com/elision.ensemble/videos/vb.22693411168/9670843262/?type=2&theater

Programme note: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/the-long-forgetting-2007/

The Long Forgetting (2007)

Excerpt of 'Speak, Be Silent', for solo violin & ensemble
29 Sept 2015, David Grimal, solo violin & Ensemble Contrechamps conducted by Michael Wendeberg, Théâtre de l’Alhambra in Geneva. 3rd movement (of 3) only. 
more info: https://lizalimcomposer.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/speak-be-silent-2015/
score is available at http://issuu.com/casaricordi/docs/lim_speak_be_silent_00_score

Speak, Be Silent (excerpt, Mvt 3, 2015)

Liza Lim, Winding Bodies: 3 knots (2014) for alto flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, Norwegian hardingfele (hardanger fiddle), violin, viola, ‘cello, double bass.
Cikada Ensemble conducted by Christian Eggen, hmcf// (live recording)
https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/winding-bodies-3-knots-2014/

Winding Bodies: 3 Knots, 2014 (excerpt, mvt 1)

How Forests think (2015-16), sheng & ensemble
[Sheng, flute/bass fl, ob/cor ang, cl/bass cl, alto sax, trumpet, trombone, percussion, ‘cello, double bass]
Excerpt of live recording of premiere 3 Sept 2016, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music, Australia, Performers: ELISION and Wu Wei (sheng) conducted by Carl Rosman. On this excerpt from the opening of the work, Josh Hyde is playing the alto saxophone; Wu Wei, sheng; Peter Neville, percussion; Ben Marks, trombone
more info: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/howforeststhink/

Liza Lim: How Forests Think (2016), short excerpt

How Forests think (2015-16), sheng & ensemble
[Sheng, flute/bass fl, ob/cor ang, cl/bass cl, alto sax, trumpet, trombone, percussion, ‘cello, double bass]
Excerpt of live recording of performance at hcmf//2016, 22 November 2016, Wu Wei (sheng) & ELISION Ensemble conducted by Carl Rosman

Liza Lim: How Forests Think (2016), Mvt 3

Movement 4 from 'Tongue of the Invisible' (2011), Liza Lim
performed by Omar Ebrahim and musikFabrik conducted by André de Ridder, 
25 June 2011, WDR Fundkhaus, Köln.

Text by Jonathan Holmes after Hafez:
'The rose flowers for a day only
Before the bud is pressed
Between the pages of the world'

More information and links to complete album: https://lizalimcomposer.wordpress.com/tongue-of-the-invisible/


Mvt 4. 'Between the pages of the world' from 'Tongue of the Invisible'

This is the very end of the 40 minute work: 'Machine for Contacting the dead' (2000) for 27 musician. Excerpt from recording of premiere, Ensemble Intercontemporain cond. Jonathan Nott, Feb 2000, Cité de la Musique.

Mvt 5 'Ritual Bells', excerpt from end of 'Machine for Contacting the dead'

Mvt 3, 'Memory Body' is the intimate centre of 'Machine for Contacting the dead' - a memorial music for the concubines/musicians and dancers buried with the Marquis Yi of Zeng'. This recording is by the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Jonathan Nott (Feb 2000).

Mvt 3, 'Memory Body' from 'Machine for Contacting the dead'

ELISION cond. Jean Deroyer, soprano Piia Komsi (20th Birthday concert, Sydney, 2006)

libretto by Patricia Sykes
text of this excerpt:

their colander bones, a sifting so alive
the clouds pour and pour through them:	‘look! 

the footprints in the mouth have left us their wings!’
their smallest noise pinpoints a galaxy:

to hear the full work, please see: 
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/classic-australia/liza-lim-mother-tongue-2005/10460210

Mother Tongue (2005), excerpt Mvt 3, 'longitude of loss'

Sydney Symphony conducted by Alexander Briger (premiere: May 2006, Sydney Opera House)
A recording by the Bavarian Radio Orchestra conducted by Christoph Poppen will be released by Hat Hut Records in Spring 2012.


The Compass (2006), excerpt

This is the opening scene of the opera
'The Oresteia', memory-theatre/opera (1991-93)
ELISION conducted by Sandro Gorli; singers: Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith 

Track 1 from: ELISION cond. Sandro Gorli, Dischi Ricordi, CRMCD 1030, 1994

Scene 1: 7 Positions Of A Memory Theatre (Cassandra's Dream Song)

for promotional purposes only:
Liza Lim: Ronda – The Spinning World (2016)
for 9 musicians: horn, tpt, tbn, harp, perc, vln, vla, vc, dbass + Smetak instruments (Ronda, Tres Sois, Piston Cretino)
Premiere: 25 February 2017, Ensemble Modern conduced by Vimbayi Kaziboni, Alte Oper, Frankfurt
Programme note: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2016/12/26/ronda-the-spinning-world-2017/

Liza Lim: Ronda (The Spinning World), 2016

Scene 6: Chang-O Flies to the Moon.
libretto by Beth Yahp
Deborah Kayser (soprano) & ELISION Ensemble conducted by Simon Hewett (live concert performance, Brisbane 1999)

Scene 6: Chang-O Flies to the Moon (from Moon Spirit Feasting opera)

The Su Song Star Map (2017) for solo violin
Recording of premiere: 26 Feb 2018, Boston University SFA Concert Hall
more info: limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2018/01/0…map-2017/

with deep-felt thanks to Ashot Sarkissjan & Josh Fineberg

Liza Lim - The Su Song Star Map - Ashot Sarkissjan

Liza Lim - Spirit Weapons 1 & II
Part I for violoncello solo, spirit-weapons-programme-note
Part II for contrabass clarinet and 3 percussion

Rosanne Hunt, 'cello; Richard Haynes, contrabass clarinet, ELISION 
Brisbane, 2001

programme note: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/spirit-weapons-i-ii-1999-2000/

Liza Lim - Spirit Weapons I & II (2000)

Liza Lim, The Quickening (2005) for soprano and guqin
Deborah Kayser, soprano
Yang Chunwei, guqin

text: Yang Lian
programme note: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/the-quickening-2005/

Liza Lim - The Quickening (2005)

Liza Lim - Shimmer Songs (2006) 
‘double quartet’
For string quartet (2 Vln, Vla, Vc), harp, 3 perc
SFCMP conducted by David Milnes

more info: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/shimmer-songs-2006/

San Francisco Cont Music Players

Liza Lim - Shimmer Songs (2006)

Liza Lim - Amulet (1992) for solo viola
Jennifer Curl, viola
https://lizalimcomposer.com/works/solo-2/
https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amulet-1992/

After The Fire • ELISION Soloists

Liza Lim - Amulet (1992)

for string quartet; performance by Kairos Quartett
Part 1 of 'Ceremony of the Seasons' (see: http://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/in-the-shadows-light-2004/)

Qui es-tu? Vois, moi je souffle le monde,
Il fera nuit, je ne te verrai plus,
Veux-tu que ne nous reste que la lumière?
- Mais je ne sais répondre, de par un charme
Qui m’a étreint, de plus loin que l’enfance.

Who are you? Look, I blow out the world,
It will be night, I will no longer see you,
Do you want only light?
- But I cannot answer, for I am seized
By a spell from further off than childhood.

- Yves Bonnefoy: ‘L’Agitation du rêve’ (part 3) from Ce Qui fut sans lumière,  ‘In the Shadow’s Light’, transl. John Naughton, Uni of Chicago Press, 1991.

In the Shadow's Light (2004)

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