The New York Philharmonic has awarded David Lang the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music — one of the world’s largest new-music prizes. In addition to a monetary award, the Kravis Prize includes a commission for a new work that the NY Philharmonic will premiere in the 2025–26 season. Lang’s receipt of the Kravis Prize builds on a decades-long […]
Read More David Lang’s darker, a slow, methodical and moody exploration of sound for 12 strings, received its premiere release on a recording by NYC’s renowned Ensemble Signal, conducted by Brad Lubman. In their capable hands, the music becomes a piece that gradually unfolds with the fervor and foreboding of a cinematic thriller. Quite fittingly, Signal’s performance on Oct […]
Read More“Tallis Scholars: the rock stars of Renaissance vocal music!” — The New York Times On Monday April 8 — appropriately, the 2024 Solar Eclipse — The Tallis Scholars give the New York premiere of David Lang’s sun-centered at Carnegie Hall/Zankel Hall. Commissioned for the Tallis Scholars by Cal Performances, Carnegie Hall Corporation, Hopkins Center, John F. […]
Read MoreCantaloupe Music releases a new recording of David Lang’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, the little match girl passion, on streaming, CD, and Limited Edition Vinyl LP Since its premiere by Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices at Carnegie Hall in 2007, David Lang’s the little match girl passion has been performed close to 600 times in over 40 […]
Read MoreFrom October 13-15 Choir Days at Flagey in Brussels features David Lang’s music throughout the festival, including the Belgium premiere of Lang’s we were (co-commissioned by Flagey) performed by Vox Clamantis with conductor Jaan-Eik Tulve.
Read More European premieres prisoner of the state David Lang, libretto/music Elkhanah Pulitzer, director Cast: Claron McFadden — the assistant Davone Tines — the jailer Alan Oke — the governor Michael Wilmering — the prisoner (in Bochum, Rotterdam, and Bruges) Jarrett Ott — the prisoner (in Malmö and Barcelona) David Lang’s prisoner of the state—co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, […]
Read MoreFrom July 1-3 at Bard SummerScape David Lang and choreographer Pam Tanowitz premiere a new evening-length work, entitled Song of Songs. A hymn of yearning, steeped in images from the natural world, the dance was commissioned by The Fisher Center at Bard College, and the music was co-commissioned by The Fisher Center with LA Opera, The […]
Read MoreDavid Lang, ‘again (after ecclesiastes)’ June 14, 2022 10:35 AM ET Tom Huizenga David Lang‘s again (after ecclesiastes) opens with sections of the Cappella Amsterdam choir, from high to low, interlacing on the phrase “People come and people go / The earth goes on and on.” The words are from Ecclesiastes, a curious book of The Old […]
Read More“[the writings] are enchanted unaccompanied choral pieces, jewel-like in their crystalline beauty and performed with just the right degree of gentle detachment by Cappella Amsterdam.” — Andrew Clements, The Guardian Conductor Daniel Reuss and Cappella Amsterdam’s premiere recording of David Lang’s a cappella cycle the writings is now available on Pentatone Records and all streaming services. Originally commissioned by […]
Read MoreIn April and May, The Tallis Scholars premiered sun-centered, a work commissioned to share a program with Antoine Brumel’s monumental Missa “Et ecce terræ motus” — a Renaissance mass for 12 voices that gets its name from a scrap of chant whose text means ‘and the earth moved.’ Lang describes the connection: This scrap of text […]
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