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Louis Andriessen: I Await My Father, from Anaïs Nin
AUDIO (4:14),
14 April 2011

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Louis Andriessen I Await My Father, from Anaïs Nin

Cristina Zavalloni voice
London Sinfonietta

I Await My Father is an extract from the London Sinfonietta's latest CD release featuring the UK premiere of Louis Andriessen's Anaïs Nin . Recorded live in concert on 14 April 2011 at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, this is the first recording in the London Sinfonietta's new partnership with Signum and also features the iconic De Staat.

Anaïs Nin is a London Sinfonietta co-commission with Accademia Musicale Chigiana. The CD release was made possible through support from Music Centre the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Embassy, and Sociètè Gavignies.

Anaïs Nin is a musical stage play for one voice, an ensemble of eight on-stage musicians, without conductor, and projected film fragments.

The voice, Anaïs Nin, sings of her love affair with her father, Joaquín Nin, whom she encounters again after 20 years’ absence, and of her lovers René Allendy, Antonin Artaud and Henry Miller.

Click here for more information about the recording or to purchase the CD.

Louis Andriessen's music is published by Boosey and Hawkes