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This world premiere performance of Louis Andriessen’s The only one by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall in May 2019, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with solo vocalist Nora Fischer. Two artistic discoveries influenced Andriessen as he wrote the piece: a collection of poems by the Flemish poet Delphine Lecompte from The animals in me, and the work of Nora Fischer, an Amsterdam–based singer known for developing dynamic creative projects that fuse classical and pop music. “Andriessen used bits of old music, an allusion to the Dies Irae motif and some Minimalism, a jazz riff here and a Mexican brass allusion there, as he often has," says the Los Angeles Times. "But he always remakes it into a complex and powerfully blatant new thing, and here edge-of-your-seat operatically so."

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Louis Andriessen’s The only one was released on Nonesuch Records on March 5, 2021. This world premiere performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was commissioned by the LA Phil with generous support from the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music as part of its centennial celebrations. Recorded live in May 2019 at Walt Disney Concert Hall and conducted by LA Phil Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen with solo vocalist Nora Fischer, The only one is available for pre-order now here. Additional The only one commissioners include NTR ZaterdagMatinee and BBC Radio 3.

Two artistic discoveries influenced Andriessen as he wrote The only one. The first was a collection of poems by the Flemish poet Delphine Lecompte from The animals in me. “These witty, intelligent, experimental, and sometimes scabrous poems immediately fascinated me. My focus turned to faraway America, with its great tradition of songwriting,” he says.

His second discovery was the work of Nora Fischer, an Amsterdam–based singer known for developing dynamic creative projects that fuse classical and pop music. Andriessen says, “The depth of her versatility has strongly influenced the musical language of the piece.” He further explains that “the piece flirts a bit with certain kinds of pop songs and light music, and starts out with a beautiful song.”

“Andriessen used bits of old music, an allusion to the Dies Irae motif and some Minimalism, a jazz riff here and a Mexican brass allusion there, as he often has," says the Los Angeles Times. "But he always remakes it into a complex and powerfully blatant new thing, and here edge-of-your-seat operatically so."

Louis Andriessen, according to London’s Guardian, is “not only the leading Dutch composer of our time, but one of the most important figures in European music in the last half century, whose influence has spread far beyond that of his own works.” His music has explored politics, time, velocity, matter, and mortality in five works for large ensemble: De Staat (Nonesuch, 1991), De Tijd (Nonesuch, 1993), De Snelheid, De Materie (Nonesuch, 1996), and Trilogy of the Last Day. His stage works include the Theatre of the World (Nonesuch, 2017, also an LA Phil commission), La Commedia (Nonesuch, 2014), Writing to Vermeer (Nonesuch, 2006), and Rosa: The Death of a Composer (Nonesuch, 2000), as well as the monodrama Anaïs Nin. Nonesuch also released an album with his De Stijl and M is for Man, Music, Mozart in 1994. Andriessen’s recent awards include the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, the Caecilia Prize, and the Grawemeyer Award.

Redefining what an orchestra can be, the LA Phil is as vibrant as Los Angeles, one of the world's most open and dynamic cities. Led by Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, this internationally renowned orchestra harnesses the transformative power of live music to build community, foster intellectual and artistic growth, and nurture the creative spirit.

Esa-Pekka Salonen is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony and the Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. As the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he is now Conductor Laureate, Salonen was instrumental in opening the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and making the orchestra one of the best-attended and -funded in the country. He is the Artist in Association at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, and the cofounder of the annual Baltic Sea Festival.

Amsterdam–based singer Nora Fischer’s performances range from traditional concert programs to genre-defying collaborations—such as her 2018 debut album HUSH and her work with Yo-Yo Ma’s world-renowned Silkroad. Her repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to the many compositions that have been written for her, including work by Osvaldo Golijov, David Lang, and Louis Andriessen. She has performed internationally, from the Philharmonie de Paris and Walt Disney Concert Hall to the Lowlands Pop Festival and has premiered many new operas, most recently Andriessen’s Theatre of the World.

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Music composed by Louis Andriessen

Produced by Dmitriy Lipay

Recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, May 2—5, 2019
Recording and Mastering Engineer: Dmitriy Lipay
Walt Disney Concert Hall Audio Crew: Kevin Wapner, Randy Piotroski, Leland Alexander, Robert Schraut

Photo of Louis Andriessen by Marco Borggreve
Design by Barbara de Wilde

The only one was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, with generous support from the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music.

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Nora Fischer, soprano

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
First Violin: Martin Chalifour, Nathan Cole, Bing Wang, Akiko Tarumoto, Rebecca Reale, Michele Bovyer, Rochelle Abramson, Camille Avellano,Mark Baranov, Miika Gregg, Mischa Lefkowitz, Edith Markman, Mitchell Newman, Stacy Wetzel
Second Violin: Lyndon Johnston Taylor, Mark Kashper, Kristine Whitson, Johnny Lee, Dale Breidenthal, Ingrid Chun, Jin-Shan Dai, Tianyun Jia, Chao-Hua Jin, Nickolai Kurganov, Guido Lamell, Varty Manouelian, Yun Tang, Michelle Tseng, Suli Xue, Eduardo Rios
Viola: Teng Li, Dale Hikawa Silverman,Ben Ullery, Dana Lawson, Richard Elegino, John Hayhurst, Ingrid Hutman, Michael Larco, Hui Liu, Meredith Snow, Leticia Oaks Strong, Minor L. Wetzel, Andrew François
Cello: Robert deMaine, Ben Hong, Dahae Kim, Jonathan Karoly, David Garrett, Barry Gold, Jason Lippmann, Gloria Lum, Serge Oskotsky, Brent Samuel
Bass: Christopher Hanulik, Oscar M. Meza, David Allen Moore, Ted Botsford, Jack Cousin, Jory Herman, Brian Johnson, Peter Rofé, Michael Fuller, Dennis Trembly
Flute: Denis Bouriakov, Catherine Ransom Karoly, Elise Shope Henry, Sarah Jackson
Piccolo: Sarah Jackson
Oboe: Marion Arthur Kuszyk, Anne Marie Gabriele, Carolyn Hove
English Horn: Carolyn Hove
Clarinet: Boris Allakhverdyan, Burt Hara, Andrew Lowy, David Howard
E-Flat Clarinet: Andrew Lowy
Bass Clarinet: David Howard
Bassoon: Whitney Crockett, Shawn Mouser, Michele Grego, Evan Kuhlmann
Contrabassoon: Evan Kuhlmann
Horns: Andrew Bain, Jaclyn Rainey, Gregory Roosa, Amy Jo Rhine, Brian Drake, Ethan Bearman
Trumpet: Thomas Hooten, James Wilt, Christopher Still
Trombone: David Rejano Cantero, James Miller, Paul Radke
Bass Trombone: John Lofton
Tuba: Norman Pearson
Timpani: Joseph Pereira
Percussion: Matthew Howard, James Babor, Perry Dreiman, Wesley Sumpter
Keyboard: Joanne Pearce Martin
Harp: Lou Anne Neill
Librarians: Kazue Asawa McGregor, Kenneth Bonebrake, Stephen Biagini
Personnel Manager: Jeffrey Neville
Conducting Fellows: Nuno Coelho, Stephen Mulligan, Elena Schwarz, Jesús Uzcátegui

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  • About This Album

    Louis Andriessen’s The only one was released on Nonesuch Records on March 5, 2021. This world premiere performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was commissioned by the LA Phil with generous support from the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music as part of its centennial celebrations. Recorded live in May 2019 at Walt Disney Concert Hall and conducted by LA Phil Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen with solo vocalist Nora Fischer, The only one is available for pre-order now here. Additional The only one commissioners include NTR ZaterdagMatinee and BBC Radio 3.

    Two artistic discoveries influenced Andriessen as he wrote The only one. The first was a collection of poems by the Flemish poet Delphine Lecompte from The animals in me. “These witty, intelligent, experimental, and sometimes scabrous poems immediately fascinated me. My focus turned to faraway America, with its great tradition of songwriting,” he says.

    His second discovery was the work of Nora Fischer, an Amsterdam–based singer known for developing dynamic creative projects that fuse classical and pop music. Andriessen says, “The depth of her versatility has strongly influenced the musical language of the piece.” He further explains that “the piece flirts a bit with certain kinds of pop songs and light music, and starts out with a beautiful song.”

    “Andriessen used bits of old music, an allusion to the Dies Irae motif and some Minimalism, a jazz riff here and a Mexican brass allusion there, as he often has," says the Los Angeles Times. "But he always remakes it into a complex and powerfully blatant new thing, and here edge-of-your-seat operatically so."

    Louis Andriessen, according to London’s Guardian, is “not only the leading Dutch composer of our time, but one of the most important figures in European music in the last half century, whose influence has spread far beyond that of his own works.” His music has explored politics, time, velocity, matter, and mortality in five works for large ensemble: De Staat (Nonesuch, 1991), De Tijd (Nonesuch, 1993), De Snelheid, De Materie (Nonesuch, 1996), and Trilogy of the Last Day. His stage works include the Theatre of the World (Nonesuch, 2017, also an LA Phil commission), La Commedia (Nonesuch, 2014), Writing to Vermeer (Nonesuch, 2006), and Rosa: The Death of a Composer (Nonesuch, 2000), as well as the monodrama Anaïs Nin. Nonesuch also released an album with his De Stijl and M is for Man, Music, Mozart in 1994. Andriessen’s recent awards include the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, the Caecilia Prize, and the Grawemeyer Award.

    Redefining what an orchestra can be, the LA Phil is as vibrant as Los Angeles, one of the world's most open and dynamic cities. Led by Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, this internationally renowned orchestra harnesses the transformative power of live music to build community, foster intellectual and artistic growth, and nurture the creative spirit.

    Esa-Pekka Salonen is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony and the Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. As the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he is now Conductor Laureate, Salonen was instrumental in opening the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and making the orchestra one of the best-attended and -funded in the country. He is the Artist in Association at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, and the cofounder of the annual Baltic Sea Festival.

    Amsterdam–based singer Nora Fischer’s performances range from traditional concert programs to genre-defying collaborations—such as her 2018 debut album HUSH and her work with Yo-Yo Ma’s world-renowned Silkroad. Her repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to the many compositions that have been written for her, including work by Osvaldo Golijov, David Lang, and Louis Andriessen. She has performed internationally, from the Philharmonie de Paris and Walt Disney Concert Hall to the Lowlands Pop Festival and has premiered many new operas, most recently Andriessen’s Theatre of the World.

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    Nora Fischer, soprano

    Los Angeles Philharmonic
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
    First Violin: Martin Chalifour, Nathan Cole, Bing Wang, Akiko Tarumoto, Rebecca Reale, Michele Bovyer, Rochelle Abramson, Camille Avellano,Mark Baranov, Miika Gregg, Mischa Lefkowitz, Edith Markman, Mitchell Newman, Stacy Wetzel
    Second Violin: Lyndon Johnston Taylor, Mark Kashper, Kristine Whitson, Johnny Lee, Dale Breidenthal, Ingrid Chun, Jin-Shan Dai, Tianyun Jia, Chao-Hua Jin, Nickolai Kurganov, Guido Lamell, Varty Manouelian, Yun Tang, Michelle Tseng, Suli Xue, Eduardo Rios
    Viola: Teng Li, Dale Hikawa Silverman,Ben Ullery, Dana Lawson, Richard Elegino, John Hayhurst, Ingrid Hutman, Michael Larco, Hui Liu, Meredith Snow, Leticia Oaks Strong, Minor L. Wetzel, Andrew François
    Cello: Robert deMaine, Ben Hong, Dahae Kim, Jonathan Karoly, David Garrett, Barry Gold, Jason Lippmann, Gloria Lum, Serge Oskotsky, Brent Samuel
    Bass: Christopher Hanulik, Oscar M. Meza, David Allen Moore, Ted Botsford, Jack Cousin, Jory Herman, Brian Johnson, Peter Rofé, Michael Fuller, Dennis Trembly
    Flute: Denis Bouriakov, Catherine Ransom Karoly, Elise Shope Henry, Sarah Jackson
    Piccolo: Sarah Jackson
    Oboe: Marion Arthur Kuszyk, Anne Marie Gabriele, Carolyn Hove
    English Horn: Carolyn Hove
    Clarinet: Boris Allakhverdyan, Burt Hara, Andrew Lowy, David Howard
    E-Flat Clarinet: Andrew Lowy
    Bass Clarinet: David Howard
    Bassoon: Whitney Crockett, Shawn Mouser, Michele Grego, Evan Kuhlmann
    Contrabassoon: Evan Kuhlmann
    Horns: Andrew Bain, Jaclyn Rainey, Gregory Roosa, Amy Jo Rhine, Brian Drake, Ethan Bearman
    Trumpet: Thomas Hooten, James Wilt, Christopher Still
    Trombone: David Rejano Cantero, James Miller, Paul Radke
    Bass Trombone: John Lofton
    Tuba: Norman Pearson
    Timpani: Joseph Pereira
    Percussion: Matthew Howard, James Babor, Perry Dreiman, Wesley Sumpter
    Keyboard: Joanne Pearce Martin
    Harp: Lou Anne Neill
    Librarians: Kazue Asawa McGregor, Kenneth Bonebrake, Stephen Biagini
    Personnel Manager: Jeffrey Neville
    Conducting Fellows: Nuno Coelho, Stephen Mulligan, Elena Schwarz, Jesús Uzcátegui

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Music composed by Louis Andriessen

    Produced by Dmitriy Lipay

    Recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, May 2—5, 2019
    Recording and Mastering Engineer: Dmitriy Lipay
    Walt Disney Concert Hall Audio Crew: Kevin Wapner, Randy Piotroski, Leland Alexander, Robert Schraut

    Photo of Louis Andriessen by Marco Borggreve
    Design by Barbara de Wilde

    The only one was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, with generous support from the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music.