This release really is the "essential" Stravinsky in the sense that every major piece of his entire oeuvre is represented here and in chronological order. You get a picture of his compositional style and how it changed over the course of his career. It ends with a bonus track, an animated recollection by Stravinsky of the writing and premiere of ...
The Salzburg Festival is not necessarily the first venue that comes to mind as a vehicle for contemporary music. The booklet note for Orfeo's Berio: Epifanie, Coro agrees -- the Felsenreitschule concert of August 19, 1974, featuring Luciano Berio's Epifanie was "played to whole rows of empty seats." Those who stayed home missed a truly stunning ...
This nine-CD box was a lot more attractive when it first showed up in 1999, before Sony Music introduced its Direct Stream Digital mastering and super-audio CDs -- it's not quite the state-of-the-art reissue that it seemed then, as the state-of-the-art has been advancing ever-faster, but it's still an alluring package. The concept behind the ...
In a short life, Italian composer Bruno Maderna went into a labyrinth of experience and came out near where he went in. A child prodigy, Mussolini's government toured Maderna throughout the Axis world as a kind of fascist wunderkind. As a young man, he taught summer courses in hyper-advanced composition at Darmstadt and co-founded, with Luciano ...
Lilith's CD is a re-release of a 1970 Philips recording of some of Berio's most important solo and small ensemble works conducted by the composer. The musicians negotiate this treacherous repertoire with security and panache. Berberian's performance of Sequenza III for solo voice is stunningly mercurial and emotionally volatile. Her voice is less ...
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