Ellis Ludwig-Leone - The Night Falls (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Influenced by a lifelong love of storytelling and myth, Ellis Ludwig-Leone (b. 1989) writes music that is distinguished by its narrative sweep and attention to subtle changes in emotional valence. Lauded by The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino for his “knack for simultaneously expressing beauty and crisis,” Ludwig-Leone combines lush, naturalistic textures with moments of thorny complexity to create works that walk the fine line between euphoria and dread.

Since coming to international attention as the songwriter behind the celebrated indie band San Fermin, Ludwig-Leone has spent the greater part of the last decade composing works for many of today’s contemporary classical luminaries.

False We Hope, his first album of recorded compositions, was written for Attacca Quartet and vocalist Eliza Bagg and arrived in 2023 via Better Company Records. Described as “a thought-provoking sonic journey across a strange and extraordinary soundscape that almost defies description” (OperaWire), False We Hope has had recent performances at Big Ears Festival, Birds of Paradise Festival, Við Djúpið Music Festival, and more. 2023 also saw the premiere of The Night Falls, a dance-opera with music by Ludwig-Leone, lyrics by Ludwig-Leone and Karen Russell, and direction and choreography by Troy Schumacher (New York City Ballet), at PEAK Performances at Montclair State University. Praised for Ludwig-Leone’s “ingenious, gorgeous score” that “manages to suggest both the siren song and its antidote” (The New Yorker), The Night Falls was named one of The New York Times Best Dance Performances of 2023.

TRACKLIST

1. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Prelude, the Swamp at Night
2. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: "Florida!"
3. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Felisberto's Dream
4. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Sudden Blood
5. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: "Felisberto! Wake Up!"
6. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Vortical Song I
7. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Television Static
8. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Night Falls Commercial
9. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Unwound (Entr'acte)
10. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Campground
11. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: "Are You Someone They Sing To?"
12. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: "When the Sun Goes Down, the Echoes Will Begin"
13. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Mother's Tale
14. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Hunter's Tale
15. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Acrobat's Tale
16. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: A Losing Season
17. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: A Losing Season (Coda)
18. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Lola's Song
19. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Don't Look, Don't Listen
20. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Remedios Caseros Para Un Corazón Herido
21. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: "During a Solar Eclipse, What Happens?"
22. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Nocturnal Migration of Birds
23. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Sister and Brother
24. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: "Felisberto, Where Are You?"
25. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Siren Song
26. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: The Vortical Song II
27. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: "Are You Someone They Sing To?" II
28. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Reunion
29. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Postlude, the Swamp at Dawn
30. The Night Falls Ensemble - The Night Falls: Remedios Caseros Para Un Corazón Herido (Marea Viva Version)



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