the script of storms
Michael Hersch

Ah Young Hong
Tito Muñoz
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ensemble Klang

the script of storms: nine songs after texts of Fawzi Karim - no. IV
Ah Young Hong, soprano
Tito Muñoz, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Release on 16 September 2022
New Focus Recordings (FCR-344)
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.

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16 September 2022

Tracks 1-11:
cortex and ankle - songs after texts of Christopher Middleton, I-XI
Ah Young Hong, soprano
Ensemble Klang

Tracks 12-20:
the script of storms - songs for soprano and orchestra after texts of Fawzi Karim, I-IX
Ah Young Hong, soprano
Tito Muñoz, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Meet the Artists
  • Liner Notes

    Michael Hersch’s cortex and ankle by Aaron Grad
    the script of storms: Reflections on Fawzi Karim by Michael Hersch

  • Texts

    cortex and ankle: songs after texts of Christopher Middleton
    the script of storms: songs for soprano and orchestra after texts of Fawzi Karim