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 Scott Ross Domenico Scarlatti 13 Keyboard Sonatas Classical | Warner Classics | 180g, 1LP Released 6th February 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Scott Ross Domenico Scarlatti 13 Keyboard Sonatas £19.00 Genre: Classical Label: Warner Classics SKU: 0190295890605 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 6th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Strauss/Sir Thomas Beecham/RPO Ein Heldenleben Classical | Hi Q | 180g, 1LP Released 26th May 2012 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Strauss/Sir Thomas Beecham/RPO Ein Heldenleben £20.00 Genre: Classical Label: Hi Q SKU: HIQLP020del Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 26th May 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joseph Keilberth/Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festpiele Wagner – The Complete Ring Cycle Classical | Testament | Box Set Released 8th July 2016 £450.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joseph Keilberth/Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festpiele Wagner – The Complete Ring Cycle £450.00 Genre: Classical Label: Testament SKU: SBTLP0119 Formats: Box Set Released Date: 8th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bizet: Carmen Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein Classical | Speakers Corner | 3LP, Box Set, Includes Booklet Released 14th January 2015 £86.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bizet: Carmen Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein £86.00 Genre: Classical Label: Speakers Corner SKU: DGG2709043 Formats: 3LP, Box Set, Includes Booklet Released Date: 14th January 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Milos Karadaglic Blackbird: The Beatles Album Classical | Mercury Classics | 1LP Released 22nd February 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Milos Karadaglic Blackbird: The Beatles Album £19.00 Genre: Classical Label: Mercury Classics SKU: 4812341 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nathan Milstein / Walter Susskind Masterpieces For Violin And Orchestra Classical | Analogue Productions | 180g, 1LP Released 8th December 2017 £45.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nathan Milstein / Walter Susskind Masterpieces For Violin And Orchestra £45.00 Genre: Classical Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPC8528 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 8th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Gwilym Simcock, LSO Percussion Ensemble Ocean Floor Classical | LSO Live | 1LP Released 12th April 2024 £20.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Gwilym Simcock, LSO Percussion Ensemble Ocean Floor £20.00 Genre: Classical Label: LSO Live SKU: LSO5122-LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th April 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Vivaldi/Nathan Milstein Four Concerti Classical | Testament | 180g, 1LP Released 11th October 2010 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vivaldi/Nathan Milstein Four Concerti £21.00 Genre: Classical Label: Testament SKU: SAX2518 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th October 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Herbert von Karajan Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Sigurd Jorsalfar Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | 180g, 1LP Released 26th July 2019 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Herbert von Karajan Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Sigurd Jorsalfar £16.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4837265 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 26th July 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lang Lang In Paris Classical | Sony Classical | 180g, 2LP Released 15th March 2016 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lang Lang In Paris £26.00 Genre: Classical Label: Sony Classical SKU: AMWS26019 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 15th March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Classical Start again
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