Liza Lim - Singing in tongues [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.This three-disc collection documents the operas and major vocal works composed by Liza Lim for ELISION, Australia's preeminent new music ensemble, with whom Lim has maintained a close collaborative relationship for nearly four decades. As with all of her works for the stage, here Lim embraces opera's opportunities to explore radical ideas of anthropological ritual, transculturalism, transfiguration, and the spiritual dimensions of myth, memory, language, and culture.rr

To sing, in Lim's operas, is an act of ventriloquism through which a body onstage becomes possessed by a second powerful presenceu2014multiple characters, identities, truths, or temporalities vie for embodiment through the voice. There is perhaps no better example of Lim's staging of this flickering presence than in the 'Angel of History' aria at the end of the first scene of The Navigator (2008). The character, borrowed from Walter Benjamin's meditation on Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, is a paradoxical creature who gazes upon the past while being bulleted into the future, caught at the wings by the storm of human progress. As a result, The Angel speaks with a voice that is at once part beast, part deity, part bird, and part human, combining past, present, and future in a single conjugation.rr

In addition to The Navigator, these discs include world-premiere recordings of Chang-O Flies to the Moonu2014the sixth scene from Lim's opera Yuxe8 Lxecng Jixe9 (Moon Spirit Feasting) (2000), in which Chang-O struggles to reconcile in a single body the many versions of herself that populate her mythu2014and Mother Tongue (2005), perhaps the most significant vocal work of Lim's beyond the operas, a meditation on the ecology of language and also a radical act of preservation: encased in Patricia Sykes' libretto are words and sounds from Aboriginal languages now on the brink of extinction.rr

These are joined by The Oresteia (1993), a remarkable worku2014even more so considering it was only Lim's third published composition, undertaken just shy of her twenty-fifth birthdayu2014which was originally released by Dischi Ricordi in 1994, but has long been out of print. This 'memory theater in seven parts' summons the characters of Orestes, Electra, Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Agamemnon into a space to revive, rather than retell, their unrequited feud. The libretto weaves single-word fragments from the Greek play with Tony Harrison's modern English translation and the poetry of Sappho.

Liza Lim: The Oresteia: 01 Scene 1 - 7 Positions of a memory theatre (Cassandra's Dream Song)

Liza Lim: Yuxe8 Lxecng Jixe9 (Moon Spirit Feasting): 01: Scene 6 - Chang-O Flies to the Moon

Liza Lim: The Oresteia: 02 Scene 2 - Memory spills from the split skulls of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon

Liza Lim: Mother Tongue: 01 Century, the continuane

Liza Lim: The Oresteia: 03 Scene 3 - Cassandra - The Banquet

Liza Lim: Mother Tongue: 02 Latitude of gain

Liza Lim: The Oresteia: 04 Scene 4 - The Furies

Liza Lim: Mother Tongue: 03 Longitude of loss

Liza Lim: The Oresteia: 05 Scene 5 - Clytemnestra's Ghost

Liza Lim: The Navigator: 05 Scene 4 - False Sail

Liza Lim: The Oresteia: 06 Scene 6 - Apollo's Masque (the missing 'Satyr Play')

Liza Lim: The Navigator: 06 Scene 5 - Transfiguration

Liza Lim: The Oresteia: 07 Scene 7 - Athena's Trumpet

Liza Lim: The Navigator: 07 Scene 6 - The Binding

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