Michael Hersch: the script of storms

Over the decades, composer Michael Hersch has worked closely with some of the most powerful poetical voices of our time. Fawzi Karim (1945-2019) and Christopher Middleton (1926-2015) are two poets whose texts Hersch has explored often in his music. The two pieces on this recording, the script of storms and cortex and ankle, display music that composer Georg Friedrich Haas has described as an "unconditional, radical expressivity that reveals the human abyss without any palliation." Soprano Ah Young Hong, the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Muñoz, and Ensemble Klang perform.