L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S. / written by Nick Cave, Nicholas Lens.
Material type:![Music](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/MU.png)
- performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Litanies
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Main Library | CD | OPERA Lens, Nicholas | Available | 33111009922689 | ||||
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Northport Library | CD | OPERA Lens, Nicholas | Available | 33111009922598 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Lyrics by Nick Cave are matched with the music of Belgian composer Nicholas Lens. Having collaborated on 2014's Shell Shock, they joined forces again during the lockdown to create this new work. Inner peace and stillness were the initial inspiration for the minimalistic, at times trance-like music.
Title from container.
Music by Nicholas Lens; lyrics by Nick Cave.
Clara-Lane Lens, Denzil Delaere, Claron McFadden, Nicholas L. Noorenbergh, vocals ; Fourteen Storks Ensemble.
Program notes and lyrics inserted in container.
A trance chamber opera by Belgian composer Nicholas Lens; the libretto comprised of "twelve lyrical pieces that track the birth, blooming, fracturing and rebirth of a human being--petitions to a divine maker demanding some sort of cosmic acknowledgment" in the words of librettist Nick Cave
Litany of the divine absence (5:30) -- Litany of the first encounter (4:49) -- Litany of blooming (5:43) -- Litany of the sleeping dream (6:26) -- Litany of the yearning (5:04) -- Litany of fragmentation (6:19) -- Litany of the forsaken (3:45) -- Litany of gathering up (4:11) -- Litany of transformation (5:23) -- Litany of godly love (4:45) -- Litany of the unnamed (5:21) -- Litany of divine presence (5:25).