Liza Lim - Selected Works

Selected Works

• 1988/1989 Garden of Earthly Desire for flute, oboe, clarinet, electric guitar, mandolin, harp, violin, viola, violoncello, contrabass, percussion
• 1989 Voodoo Child for soprano solo, flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin, violoncello, trombone, piano, percussion
• 1990 Diabolical Birds for piccolo, bass clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello, vibraphone
• 1991–1993 The Oresteia, A Memory Theatre, opera
• 1992 Amulet for viola solo
• 1993 Li Shang Lin for coloratura soprano, 15 instruments
• 1994/1995 Sri-Vidya, Utterances of Adoration for choir and orchestra
• 1994/1995 Bar-do'i-thos-grol, 7-night installation performance based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, artist Domenico de Clario
• 1995 Street of Crocodiles for flute, oboe, alto saxophone, alto trombone, cimbalom/cymbal, violin, viola, violoncello, baroque violoncello
• 1996 The Alchemical Wedding for orchestra (22 instruments)
• 1996 Inguz (Fertility) for clarinet in A, violoncello
• 1997 The Heart's Ear for flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello
• 1997 Philtre, Hardanger fiddle solo or retuned violin
• 1999 Sonorous Bodies for koto and voice solo, in collaboration with video artist Judith Wright
• 1999 Veil for flute/bass flute, bass clarinet, trumpet in C, percussion, piano, violin, violoncello
• 1999 Yuè Lìng Jié (Moon Spirit Feasting), A Chinese ritual street opera, libretto by Beth Yahp
• 2001 Machine for Contacting the Dead for twenty-seven instruments
• 2002–2004 Ecstatic Architecture, commissioned for the inaugural season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
• 2004 Immer Fliessender (Ever Flowing), a companion-piece for Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony
• 2004 In the Shadow's Light for string quartet, commissioned by Festival d'automne à Paris for the Kairos-Quartett
• 2004/2005 The Quickening for soprano and qin, commissioned by the Festival d'Automne à Paris
• 2005 Flying Banner "Fanfare" for orchestra, after Wang To
• 2005 Mother Tongue, for soprano & 15 instruments, poems by Patricia Sykes, commissioned by Festival d'Automne, Ensemble Intercontemporain & ELISION
• 2005 Songs Found in Dream for oboe, bass clarinet, alto sax, trumpet, 2 percussion, viola, cello
• 2005 Glass House Mountains, installation work with artist Judy Watson
• 2006 The Compass for orchestra with flute and didgeridoo soloists
• 2006 Shimmer Songs for string quartet, harp, 3 percussion
• 2006 City of Falling Angels for 12 percussion
• 2007 Weaver–of–Fictions for alto Ganassi recorder
• 2007 The Long Forgetting for tenor Ganassi recorder
• 2007 Wild Winged–one for solo trumpet
• 2007 Sensorium for soprano, C-tenor recorders, baroque harp, viola d'amore
• 2007 The Navigator, opera for 5 singers, 16 instruments and electronics, libretto by Patricia Sykes
• 2008 Ochred String for oboe, viola, cello, double bass
• 2008 Sonorous Body for solo B♭ clarinet
• 2008 Well of Dreams for solo alto trombone