Singing in Tongues

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Release Date: 12th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: HCR25
Label: NMC
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

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Lim: The Oresteia, Scene 1

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Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith
Elision Ensemble
Sandro Gorli

7 Positions of a Memory Theatre (Cassandra's Dream Song)

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Lim: The Oresteia, Scene 2

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Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith
Elision Ensemble
Sandro Gorli

Memory Spills from the Split Skulls of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon

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Lim: The Oresteia, Scene 3

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Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith
Elision Ensemble
Sandro Gorli

Cassandra - The Banquet

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Lim: The Oresteia, Scene 4

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Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith
Elision Ensemble
Sandro Gorli

The Furies

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Lim: The Oresteia, Scene 5

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Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith
Elision Ensemble
Sandro Gorli

Clytemnestra's Ghost

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Lim: The Oresteia, Scene 6

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Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith
Elision Ensemble
Sandro Gorli

Apollo's Masque (The Missing "Satyr Play")

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Lim: The Oresteia, Scene 7

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Jeannie van de Velde
Elision Ensemble
Sandro Gorli

Athena's Trumpet

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Lim: Yuè Lìng Jié

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Deborah Kayser
Elision Ensemble
Simon Hewett

Chang-O Flies to the Moon (Live)

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Lim: Mother Tongue

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Piia Komsi
Elision Ensemble
Jean Deroyer

No. 1, Century, the Continuance (Live)

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No. 2, Latitude of Gain (Live)

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No. 3, Longitude of Loss (Live)

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Lim: The Navigator, Prelude

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Genevieve Lacey

Weaver of Fictions

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Lim: The Navigator, Scene 1

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Talise Trevigne, Philip Larson, Omar Ebrahim, Deborah Kayser
Elision Ensemble
Manuel Nawri

The Unwinding

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Lim: The Navigator, Scene 2

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Andrew Watts, Talise Trevigne, Omar Ebrahim
Elision Ensemble
Manuel Nawri

Sensorium

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Lim: The Navigator, Scene 3

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Andrew Watts, Philip Larson, Omar Ebrahim, Deborah Kayser
Elision Ensemble
Manuel Nawri

Annihilation

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Lim: The Navigator, Scene 4

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Andrew Watts, Talise Trevigne, Philip Larson, Omar Ebrahim, Deborah Kayser
Elision Ensemble
Manuel Nawri

False Sail

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Lim: The Navigator, Scene 5

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Andrew Watts, Talise Trevigne, Philip Larson, Omar Ebrahim, Deborah Kayser
Elision Ensemble
Manuel Nawri

Transfiguration

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Lim: The Navigator, Scene 6

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Andrew Watts, Talise Trevigne, Philip Larson, Omar Ebrahim, Deborah Kayser
Elision Ensemble
Manuel Nawri

The Binding

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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.

To sing, in Lim's operas, is an act of ventriloquism through which a body onstage becomes possessed by a second powerful presence?multiple 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.

In addition to The Navigator, these discs include world-premiere recordings of Chang-O Flies to the Moon?the sixth scene from Lim's opera Yu? L?ng Ji? (Moon Spirit Feasting) (2000), in which Chang-O struggles to reconcile in a single body the many versions of herself that populate her myth?and 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.

These are joined by The Oresteia (1993), a remarkable work?even more so considering it was only Lim's third published composition, undertaken just shy of her twenty-fifth birthday?which 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.

Singing in Tongues

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