Andriessen: Anais Nin, De Staadt / Atherton, Zavalloni, London Sinfonietta

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
January 1, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ANDRIESSEN, LOUIS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      London Sinfonietta
    • PERFORMER
      Zavalloni, Atherton, Synergy Vocals
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 01, 2011
    • UPC
      635212027325
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD273
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Artaud

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    2. II. Allendy

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    3. III. I wait my father

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    4. IV. Father story

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    5. V. The seduction

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    6. VI. Strange days

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    7. VII. The seventh day

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    8. VIII. Henry was tired

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    9. IX. Basque song

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Performer: Cristina Zavalloni

    10. Bar 1

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: London Sinfonietta

      Conductor: David Atherton

    11. Bar 105: Ean tis apodido prepusan harmonian kai

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: Synergy Vocals, London Sinfonietta

      Conductor: David Atherton

    12. Bar 580: To melos ek trion estin sungkeimenon

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: Synergy Vocals, London Sinfonietta

      Conductor: David Atherton

    13. Bar 920: Eidos gar kainon musikes metaballein

      Composer: Louis Andriessen

      Ensemble: Synergy Vocals, London Sinfonietta

      Conductor: David Atherton


An exciting start to a new orchestral collaboration for Signum Records, this disc is the first of a new series with the London Sinfonietta - one of the world's elite contemporary music ensembles with a reputation built on the virtuosity of its performances and ambitious programming. This live recording brings together the UK premiere of Anaïs Nin, a new work for soprano and small ensemble, alongside his famed work De Staat. Anaïs Nin is a monodrama based on the diaries of the same famed author, as well as those of her lovers (Antonin Artaud, René Allendy, Henry Miller and her own Father). A sometimes disturbing tale of desire and passion, Andriessen felt that the music should "closely track the irony, despair and passion of this brilliant, many-sided woman". ' ... [Anaïs Nin's] resonance is profound and disturbing. By pairing it in concert with an invigorating performance of Andriessen's early masterpiece, De Staat, whose concern with the individual body and the body politic bears strong parallels, the Sinfonietta showed the Dutch composer at his searching best.' Guy Dammann, The Guardian (Review of the concert from which this recording was made)