A Flowering Tree

Recorded live at the Barbican Centre, London, August 7-12, 2007. Recording facilities: Teldex Studio Berlin. Libretto adapted from the Indian folktale and poetry in translations by A.K. Ramanujan. A Flowering Tree was commissioned by New Crowned Hope (Vienna), San Francisco Symphony, Barbican Centre (London), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York), and the Berliner Philharmoniker. First performance: November 14, 2006, New Crowned Hope Festival, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria. Cover image courtesy of Roli Books (New Dehli, India), from their book "Erotic Literature of Ancient India" by Sandhya Mulchandani. This recording was made possible by support from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program. Libretto sources: "Speaking Of Siva", Kannada bhakti poems by Virasaiva saints, A.K. Ramanujan, translator, London, Penguin Books, 1973. "The Interior Landscape, Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology", A.K. Ramanujan, translator, Oxford University Press, USA, 1994. "Poems of Love and War", selected and translated by A.K. Ramanujan, Columbia University Press, New York, 1985. A Flowering Tree is dedicated to Janis Susskind and Tony Fell. Jewelcase comes in a cardboard slipcase that also includes a 44-page booklet with liner notes and full libretto. ℗ & © 2008 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.