L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens SKU: 4839746 Barcode: 0028948397464 25.00 £25.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon Released Date: 4th December 2020 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Australian Singer/Songwriter Nick Cave and Belgian Composer Nicholas Lens Collaborate on New Lockdown Chamber Opera featuring 11-Piece Instrumental Group! Renowned Bad Seeds frontman Nick Cave and Belgian composer Nicholas Lens collaborate on the “chamber opera” L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S. There are several things that Belgian composer and the Australian singer/songwriter have in common, but chief among them is that neither likes to waste time. Very early into the COVID-19 pandemic, both realized that their respective schedules for 2020 were likely to be heavily disrupted. Lens was dismayed to see performances of his operas cancelled right through to the following year, likewise Cave saw an extensive tour of North America and Europe for his band The Bad Seeds put on ice until 2021. Lens says: “The initial idea for L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S was born in the natural silence that rises from the rainy and vivid green forest that surrounds these 13th-century temples. And because my memory works in musical phrases, writing L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S has become my method of remembering the peace I found while visiting Japan as well.” Needing a librettist to author words for his music, he contacted Cave. The pair had already worked together on the 2014 opera Shell Shock, about the horrors of war. Lens recalls: “I wanted to work with someone who was fresh to the field of opera; someone who was most believable and authentic in the way they would use words. Nick was obviously that person.” Cave takes up the story: “Nicholas called me during lockdown and asked if I would write ‘12 litanies’. I happily agreed. The first thing I did after I put down the phone was search ‘What is a litany?’ I learned that a litany was ‘a series of religious petitions’, and realised I had been writing litanies all my life.” He wrote 12 lyrical pieces that tracked the birth, blooming, fracturing and eventual rebirth of a human being and which were “petitions to a divine maker demanding some sort of cosmic acknowledgement”. To Lens, the term suggests “a pure form of poetry… a lyrical form of minimalism which might lead to a trance-like state”, and he acknowledges that both men have entirely different ideas about what L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S means. The recording was very much a DIY affair and the “modest” chamber ensemble involved was mainly composed of people who simply happened to be around Lens during lockdown. Among the 11 piece instrumental group who recorded L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S was his artist daughter Clara-Lane, who had found herself trapped in Brussels due to the travel ban. Under normal circumstances she has no interest in recording music, but here she found herself playing keyboards, helping out with production and even singing on some of the tracks. Because of the social distancing rules, each of the musicians had to come in and record his or her part separately, but the beautiful and moving finished work reveals a unified group working with a singular purpose. Studios were completely closed down so Lens arranged the sessions in his own home, and he feels that some of the atmosphere of the “dead and spooky city with its weird ambience” has permeated this special recording. Lens closes, “In the end, all of this was recorded in one room, so it literally is chamber music!” Artist Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens Genre Classical Label Deutsche Grammophon Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Litany of Divine Absence Litany of The First Encounter Litany of Blooming Litany of The Sleeping Dream Litany of The Yearning Litany of Fragmentation Litany of The Forsaken Litany of Gathering Up Litany of Transformation Litany of Godly Love Litany of The Unnamed Litany of Divine Presence Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Classical View Product Quick View Fritz Reiner Respighi: Pines of Rome & Fountains of Rome Classical | Analogue Productions | 180g, 1LP Released 11th December 2013 £45.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Fritz Reiner Respighi: Pines of Rome & Fountains of Rome £45.00 Genre: Classical Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPC2436 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th December 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Ryuichi Sakamoto A Trubute To Ryuichi Sakamoto: To The Moon And Back Classical | Milan | 2LP Released 2nd December 2022 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ryuichi Sakamoto A Trubute To Ryuichi Sakamoto: To The Moon And Back £32.00 Genre: Classical Label: Milan SKU: 19658737981 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sir Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wagner GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG Classical | Decca Classics | 6LP, Box Set Released 30th June 2023 £152.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sir Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wagner GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG £152.00 Genre: Classical Label: Decca Classics SKU: 4852647 Formats: 6LP, Box Set Released Date: 30th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hendrik Weber 429 Hz Formen von Stille Classical | Modern Records | 2LP Released 7th May 2021 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hendrik Weber 429 Hz Formen von Stille £24.00 Genre: Classical Label: Modern Records SKU: 4050538635263 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 7th May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ernest Ansermet Ravel: Daphinis & Chloé Classical | Decca Classics | 180g, 1LP Released 7th August 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ernest Ansermet Ravel: Daphinis & Chloé £19.00 Genre: Classical Label: Decca Classics SKU: 4788556 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 7th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Helene Grimaud and Camerata Salzburg The Messenger Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | 2LP Released 2nd October 2020 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Helene Grimaud and Camerata Salzburg The Messenger £28.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4838258 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 2nd October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Vivaldi / Daniel Benko Vivaldi: Lute Concertos & Trios Classical | Boxstar Records | 180g, 1LP Released 10th September 2011 £45.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vivaldi / Daniel Benko Vivaldi: Lute Concertos & Trios £45.00 Genre: Classical Label: Boxstar Records SKU: SLPX11978 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th September 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Valentina Lisitsa Plays Liszt Classical | Decca | 180g, 1LP Released 13th October 2014 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Valentina Lisitsa Plays Liszt £21.00 Genre: Classical Label: Decca SKU: ADEC91310 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 13th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rimsky Korsakov/ Paul Kletzki Scheherazade Classical | Hi Q | 180g, 1LP Released 10th June 2013 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rimsky Korsakov/ Paul Kletzki Scheherazade £20.00 Genre: Classical Label: Hi Q SKU: HIQLP031 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th June 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Abel Selaocoe Where is home (Hae Ke Kae) Classical | Warner Classics | 1LP Released 23rd September 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Abel Selaocoe Where is home (Hae Ke Kae) £24.00 Genre: Classical Label: Warner Classics SKU: 0190296224287 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Classical Start again
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