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musica viva, vol. 47 - Liza Lim
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), William Barton (digeridoo), Carin Levine (flute)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Edward Gardner, Franck Ollu, Christoph Poppen
Liza Lim is a weaver of worlds. An Australian of Chinese heritage, her music arises from a transcultural urge far deeper than surface references and extending into realms of ecology, metaphysics... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Premiere
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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... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Composer of the Year
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Liza Lim: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
Sophie Schafleitner (violin), Lorelei Dowling (bassoon), Klangforum Wien, Peter Rundel, Stefan Asbury
This portrait disc is a primer on Lim’s music. At 40 minutes, Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus is the centrepiece. Lim draws connections between enormous gyres of plastic rubbish swirling in... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Special offer. Lim: How Forest Think & Cassidy: The Wreck of Former Boundaries
Elision Ensemble at 30
Elision Ensemble
Aaron Cassidy’s title piece is an electroacoustic concerto for two trumpeters on four instruments, exploiting minutely detailed sounds — not much blasting here. —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Lim: Tongue of the Invisible
Uri Caine (piano) & Omar Ebrahim (baritone)
ensemble musikFabrik, André de Ridder
Lim deploys improvisation judiciously, keeping it strictly within bounds, and the imagery of her music can be direct in its own right, whether it's the fierce declamation of the vocal writing,... —
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Liza Lim: The Heart's Ear
Ensemble Modern, Elision Ensemble, Deborah Kayser, Carl Rosman, Rosanne Hunt
Ingo Metzmacher, Sandro Gorli, Dominique My
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