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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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Goebbels: Landscape with Distant Relatives
RecommendedDavid Bennent (speaker) & Georg Nigl (baritone)
German Chamber Choir & Ensemble Modern, Franck Ollu
That music is a stylistic patchwork… with reference to Bollywood film scores and country and western punctuated by snatches of jazzy improvisation… and medieval pastiche. It shouldn't work... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Premiere Recording of the Year
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Ferneyhough - Terrain
Graeme Jennings (violin), Ken Murray (guitars), Carl Rosman (clarinet), Erkki Veltheim (viola), Geoffrey Morris (guitar)
ELISION Ensemble, Franck Ollu, Jean Deroyer
These are very fine performances, beautifully captured. It would be invidious to single out any of the soloists, all of whom acquit themselves handsomely; but perhaps the two guitarists deserve... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Dusapin: Penthesilea
Georg Nigl (Achilles), Natascha Petrinsky (Penthesilea), Marisol Montalvo (Prothoe), Werner van Mechelen (Odysseus), Eve-Maud Hubeau (Oberpriesterin), Wiard Withol (Bote), Yaroslava Kozin (Botin), Marta Baretta (Amazone)
Orchestre Symphonique et Choers de la Monnaie, Franck Ollu
The performance, which was the work’s world premiere in 2015, could hardly be bettered. Mezzo-soprano Natascha Petrinsky, Viennese born, Israeli trained, scores a triumph in the title role.... —
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Contemporary Music
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it’s one of Rihm’s greatest achievements, an unstoppable, ever-renewing stream of invention that seems to follow its own satisfying logic. It’s also phenomenally difficult to play, though you’d... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Composer of the Year
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Wolfgang Rihm: Jakob Lenz
Josefin Feiler, Rebecca Blanz, Marie–Belle Sandis, Maria Polańska, Serhii Moskalchuk, Marcel Brunner, Joachim Goltz, Patrick Zielke, Raphael Wittmer, Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim, Children's Choir of Nationaltheater Mannheim, Franck Ollu
Given the dour subject and Lenz’s tragic existence, the result is a stark drama clothed in appropriately straight-down-the-line modernism; but it possesses integrity in every bar, the composer’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Opera & Stage Choice
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Xiaogang Ye: Seven Episodes For Lin'an, Twilight in Tibet & Tianjin Suite
Yijie Shi (tenor), Cong Gu (horn), Songhu Liu (baritone), Yuanming Song (soprano), Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Stefan Malzew, Franck Ollu
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Pascal Dusapin: Passion
Ensemble Modern (performer), Franck Ollu (performer), Keren Motseri (performer), Georg Nigl (performer), Vocalconsort Berlin (performer)
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O Bianchi: Anahata Concerto
Anna Petrini (Paetzold Contrabass recorder), Oscar Bianchi (electronics), Emily Elias (soprano), Vera Fisher (bass flute), Rico Gubler (baritone saxophone), Patrick Judt (viola), Mats Scheidegger (guitar), Hagen Matzeit (counter-tenor), Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne (violin), Paolo Vignaroli (bass flute)
Klangforum...
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António Pinho Vargas: Six Portraits of Pain & Oscuro
Anssi Karttunen (cello), Remix Ensemble Casa da Música, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Franck Ollu, Pedro Neves
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