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Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	Laborintus 2
Label:	HARMONIA MUNDI (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	HMA 195764

Music performed by the Ensemble Musique Vivante, laying down a turbulent racket of avant-crinkle, over which the 4-piece Chorale Experimentale bellows vocal confusion. "...[Berio] has also succeeded in discovering sounds, phrasings, effects of all kinds which have permitted him to venture further and further into areas which had so far been thought impermissible or impossible for the human voice. These investigations... are magisterially reflected in the larger works and particularly in 'Laborintus II.'"

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	Différences/Sequenza III & VII/Due Pezzi/Chamber Music
Label:	LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	LR 121LP

Reissue of this early Berio album, originally issued by Philips. "Collection of works (1951-1969) by Italian avant-garde composer and sound pioneer Luciano Berio. Featuring performances by mezzo soprano (and muse of such composers as Stravinsky, Bussotti and Henze) Cathy Berberian and leading oboe virtuoso Heinz Hollinger, as well as one of the first attempts to combine live instrumentation with pre-recorded sound." Featured compositions: "Differences" (for 5 instruments and magnetic tape), "Sequenza III" (for female voice), "Sequenza VII" (for oboe), "Due Pezzi (for violin and piano), "Chamber Music" (for female voice, clarinet, cello and harp).

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	The Great Works For Voice
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 048CD

1995 release, 2006 remastered edition. A major reissue from Mode with an added world premiere. Added to this reissue is the first recording of 'Quattro Canzoni Poplari,' four arrangements of Italian folk songs which hark back to late medieval Sicilian and Genovese texts and tune. 24-bit remastered sound. First volume in Mode's series dedicated to Berio. Performed by Christine Schadeberge (soprano voice) and Musician's Accord, this consists of works written from '53 to '68, with Cathy Berberian in mind. "Folk Songs" is a suite of 11 songs for flute, clarinet, harp, viola, cello and perc. and was intended to undermine the expectations of the "avant-garde." This is still bound to throw off listeners expecting experimental vocal work, but the following 45 minutes of material is essential work for those interested in the genre. "Sequenza III" is for solo female voice, as a part of Berio's series for virtuosos. "Chamber Music" features sung poems by Joyce, accompanied by clarinet, cello & harp. "Circles" features e. e. cummings texts, accompanied by harp & percussion.

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	The Complete Sequenzas & Works for Solo Instruments
Label:	MODE
Format:	4CD
Price:	$47.00
Catalog #:	MODE 161/63CD

"Luciano Berio greatly enriched the repertoire for solo instruments and voice with his series of sixteen Sequenzas and works such as 'Psy,' 'Gesti,' 'Rounds' and 'Fa-Si.' Written between 1958 and 2002 and spanning almost five decades of Berio's creative career, these solo compositions reflect some of his most crucial aesthetic ideas and compositional techniques." Features: The first complete recording of the Sequenazs; The first complete recording of the alternate Sequenazs; Plus all of Berio's works for solo instruments; An international all-star cast of performers: Paula Robison, flute; Susan Jolles, harp; Isabelle Ganz, voice; Aki Takahashi, piano; Stuart Dempster, trombone; Rohan De Saram, cello; Ulrich Krieger, soprano saxophone; Irvine Arditti, violin; Seth Josel, guitar; Noriko Shimada, bassoon; Stefano Scodanibbio, double bass. Deluxe package with 104 page booklet of notes.

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	Circles/Sequenza I/Sequenza III/Sequenza V
Label:	WERGO (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WER 6021

Circles is a piece based on e.e. Cummings texts, performed by Cathy Berberian. Berio's "Sequenzas" are a series of pieces designed for soloists to extend the boundaries of their musical isolation as far as possible. Sequenza I performed here by Aurele Nicolet for solo flute. Sequenza III by Berberian for solo voice; "The scale of possibilities in vocal expression... from stammering to long held passages, from a wild cry to hastily articulated babbling." Sequenza V is for solo trombone, by Vinko Globokar; "...completely unexpected and unfamiliar sounds, which are unquestionably closer to electronic music... by simultaneously singing and playing different, and precisely described notes which are carefully selected by virtue of their dissonant friction..." ? Henri Pousseur.

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	Canticum novissimi testamenti, A-ronne
Label:	WERGO (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WER 6678

"The mutual passion they shared for the sound of language was the basis for the long and fruitful collaboration between writer Edoardo Sanguineti and composer Luciano Berio. Sanguineti was the leader of the Italian avant-garde movement of the 1960s and formerly, a Communist senator in the Italian parliament. He remains one of Italy's most respected thinkers, teaching literature at the University of Genoa. Sanguineti considers Berio's Canticum novissimi testamenti and A-Ronne to be the most successful musical settings of his texts. In his obituary for his friend, Sanguineti wrote in 2003: 'For me he embodies purely and simply how music can be planned and thought today.' A-Ronne begins with the biblical assertion that the word stood at the beginning of all things and concludes with the line 'in the end is my music.' In Canticum novissimi testamenti Berio traces the subtle nuances and shifting moods of the poem with elegantly homogeneous sound from eight singers and eight winds."

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