More people should listen to her. Not familiar with her sister Nadja's work, but I love her unusual arrangements and melodic/harmonic patterns. So young when she composed all these wonderful things, too... and they still sound so delightfully weird and totally not Ravel/Debussy emulations. The Igor Markevitch recordings of "Pie Jesu" and "Vieille prière bouddhique" are fucking beautiful.
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:24 (nineteen years ago)
very much so
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 00:42 (fourteen years ago)
also gardiner recs
One of my favorite composers. The first recording I heard was the early '90s CD of piano and chamber pieces and it was amazing to hear the Markevitch album and how different her large ensemble pieces are.
Also really recommend the 1976 biography by Leonie Rosenstiel if you can find a copy at a library (doesn't seem to be an easy book to find used).
Very pleased to see this thread.
― timellison, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:01 (fourteen years ago)
Not absolutely certain, but I think that prior to the Markevitch album, this was the only Lili record. Written when she was still a teenager:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnL8Ucku7co
― timellison, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:54 (fourteen years ago)
And it's gorgeous, timellison. So thrilled to see actual responses to this thread! <3
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)
Samuel Andreyev did a video on D'un vieux jardin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77OL5ekPnk8
― timellison, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 06:48 (seven years ago)