The Argentine-Israeli-Russian composer Osvaldo Golijov outdoes himself with Ayre, a collection of...well, of what, exactly? Arrangements of Mediterranean folk songs? They're more than that; the Sephardic, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic songs included here are thoroughly reworked and even made to overlap. Some are traditional, some are contemporary. ...
A major achievement in the music of the composer and a major milestone in the career of the performer, this disc of the piano music of Luciano Berio played by Andrea Lucchesini is mandatory listening for anyone who loves contemporary music. It contains not only Berio's two best-known piano works -- Rounds and Sequenza IV -- and not only an ...
Admirers of Luciano Berio's Sequenzas have long wished for an affordable, high-quality collection of these masterpieces for solo instruments, considered by some to be the core works in the composer's oeuvre. Deutsche Grammophon released Ensemble InterContemporain's fabulous set in 1994, but its relatively high price and incompleteness make it a ...
Berio's Sinfonia is a gloss on music history, modern literature, and the late '60s cultural milieu. Despite the presence of the Zeitgeist, it does not sound as dated today as other contemporaneous works do in hindsight. The piece's dovetailed references and quotations have meanings that extend beyond their use as a commentary on the times. The ...
Despite shifting trends and changing tastes in postmodern era contemporary music, Luciano Berio remains one of the most respected figures among composers active in the last half of the twentieth century. Berio's series of Sequenzas, however, are viewed as his main contribution to solo instrumental literature, sort of like Hindemith's instrumental ...
Just weeks before his death, Luciano Berio completed Stanze (2003), a five-movement composition for voice and orchestra on poems by Paul Celan, Giorgio Caproni, Edoardo Sanguineti, Alfred Brendel (better known as a pianist than as a poet), and Dan Pagis. This valedictory work is pure Berio, instantly recognizable in its continually shifting layers ...
Teodoro Anzellotti is not your run-of-the-mill accordion player -- you won't find him playing at wedding receptions or polka parties. In fact, if Anzellotti plays anything remotely resembling traditional accordion music, it must be exclusively in the privacy of his own home, because you won't find it on any of his numerous recordings, his ...
This little disc from Scotland pairs two young performers: mezzo-soprano Polly May and piano accompanist Lucy Walker. It has the flavor of recitals that students mount in order to push the boundaries a little, not least because the acoustics of the album have a spacious recital-hall feel that's a little indistinct. The notes are prefaced by a ...
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