Andriessen: Anaïs Nin; De Staat Zavalloni/Synergy Vocals/London Sinfonietta/Atherton: review

(Signum)This release signals the start of a new partnership between Signum and the London Sinfonietta. The recordings are taken from the orchestra's concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last April, which included the British premiere of Anaïs Nin, Louis Andriessen's stripped-down music-theatre portrait of the erotic diarist, composed around the voice of the soprano Christina Zavalloni. It explores Nin's relationship with lovers Antoine Artaud, Henry Miller and René Allendy using extracts from...

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