Claude Vivier's Lonely Child
The soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier\u2019s profoundly moving work for soprano and orchestra, Lonely Child. Vivier conceived the piece as one single melody, with the entire orchestra "transformed into a timbre", to create "great beams of colour". Writer Paul Griffiths explains how Stockhausen, Gregorian chant and the traditional music of Bali all contributed to this composer\u2019s distinctive soundworld.