The premiere recording of David Serkin Ludwig, Composer and poet Katie Ford’s 2018 monodrama “The Anchoress” will be released Friday, August 28 on PRISM Quartet’s XAS label.

Join us for a pre-release Facebook broadcast on Friday, August 21 at 6 pm in which acclaimed music critic Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim (The New York Times, WQXR) interviews Ludwig and Ford, followed by the world premiere performance of “The Anchoress” (recorded in 2018 at the DiMenna Center in NYC).

Along with the four saxophones of PRISM, “The Anchoress” features soprano Hyunah Yu in the title role, plus early-music ensemble Piffaro, The Renaissance Band – a strikingly original melding of timbres, yielding a sound that is rich and unsettlingly strange.

Learn all about the album—which includes Ludwig’s virtuosic “Three Anchoress Songs” for flute and tenor saxophone, played by Mimi Stillman and PRISM’s Matthew Levy respectively—at https://www.prismquartet.com/recording/the-anchoress/