Louis Andriessen: The Only One Los Angeles Philharmonic, Nora Fischer & Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Louis Andriessen (b. 1939):
• 1 Introduction 01:39
• 2 The only one 02:28
• 3 The early bird 02:45
• 4 Interlude 1 02:29
• 5 Broken morning 03:25
• 6 Interlude 2 02:16
• 7 Twist and shame 02:44
• 8 Grown up 03:07
• Total Runtime 20:53

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World premiere performance by Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with soloist Nora Fischer:

Andriessen used bits of old music, an allusion to the Dies Irae motif and some Minimalism, a jazz riff here and a Mexican brass allusion there, as he often has. But he always remakes it into a complex and powerfully blatant new thing, and here edge-of-your-seat operatically so. Los Angeles Times

Nonesuch Records releases Louis Andriessen s The only one on March 5, 2021. This world premiere performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was commissioned by the LA Phil with generous support from the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music as part of its centennial celebrations. Recorded live in May 2019 at Walt Disney Concert Hall and conducted by LA Phil Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen with solo vocalist Nora Fischer, The only one is available for pre-order now at nonesuch.com. Additional The only one commissioners include NTR ZaterdagMatinee and BBC Radio 3.

Two artistic discoveries influenced Andriessen as he wrote The only one. The first was a collection of poems by the Flemish poet Delphine Lecompte from The animals in me. These witty, intelligent, experimental, and sometimes scabrous poems immediately fascinated me. My focus turned to faraway America, with its great tradition of songwriting, he says.

His second discovery was the work of Nora Fischer, an Amsterdam based singer known for developing dynamic creative projects that fuse classical and pop music. Andriessen says, The depth of her versatility has strongly influenced the musical language of the piece. He further explains that the piece flirts a bit with certain kinds of pop songs and light music, and starts out with a beautiful song. Louis Andriessen, according to London s Guardian, is not only the leading Dutch composer of our time, but one of the most important figures in European music in the last half century, whose influence has spread far beyond that of his own works.

“Andriessen used bits of old music, an allusion to the Dies Irae motif and some Minimalism, a jazz riff here and a Mexican brass allusion there, as he often has. But he always remakes it into a complex and powerfully blatant new thing, and here edge-of-your-seat operatically so.” (Los Angeles Times)

Nora Fischer, soprano
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

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