In his fairly free applications of serialism and frequent use of aleatoric procedures, Bruno Maderna represents a compromise between the supposedly irreconcilable approaches of Pierre Boulez and John Cage. Maderna took this middle course not as an ideological or theoretical position, but rather as a practical means to his creative ends: the music ...
The oboe was Bruno Maderna's favorite instrument and he composed three concertos for it, along with several other works that prominently feature it. This 2006 CD from Col Legno presents all three concertos in vivid performances -- two of them live -- by oboist Fabian Menzel and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Stern. ...
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 ...
Naturally, this 14-disc set of live recordings of the Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1970 through 1980 is only for the hardest of hardcore collectors. Who else would be interested in a collection that mixes Beethoven with Boulez, Baird and Berio, Tchaikovsky with Lutoslawski, Ginastera and Caplet, Rachmaninov with Reger, and Martin and Walton? But ...
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