Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia
Tom Service explores Luciano Berio's 1968 Sinfonia - a collage of texts and musical quotations by Samuel Beckett, Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss, Beethoven, Debussy, Mahler and Schoenberg.
Tom Service explores Luciano Berio's Sinfonia - an iconic piece of the late 1960s modernism, scored for orchestra and eight amplified voices who speak, whisper and shout texts by Samuel Beckett and Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss. This groundbreaking work also incorporates a mass of musical quotations, from Bach to Stockhausen and everything in between.
Tom's witness is the virtuoso sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun, who like Berio, took Monteverdi's opera Orfeo and reinvented it.
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425-832-2.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo: Plutone and Proserpina
Composer: Jasdeep Singh Degun. Conductor: Laurence Cummings. Performer: Chandra Chakraborty. Performer: Dean Robinson. Performer: Orchestra of Opera North. -
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425-832-2.
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Eric Coates
By the sleepy lagoon - valse serenade
Performer: ±«Óătv Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
- CHAN 20036.
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John Lennon
Ticket to Ride
Composer: Paul McCartney. Music Arranger: Luciano Berio. Performer: Sophia Burgos. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.- SONY.
- 19075982072.
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Luciano Berio
Folk songs for mezzo-soprano and 7 players
Performer: Cathy Berberian. Performer: Juilliard Ensemble. Conductor: Luciano Berio.- RCA.
- 0902662540 2.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Gruppen for 3 orchestras
Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Conductor: Friedrich Goldmann. Conductor: Marcus Creed.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 447-761-2.
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Pierre Boulez
Pli selon pli, portrait de Mallarme
Performer: ±«Óătv Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- ERATO.
- 2564657947.
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Luciano Berio
Laborintus II (Homage to Dante) for narrator,singers,instr ens & elec sounds
Performer: Ensemble Musique Vivante. Conductor: Luciano Berio.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMA 190764.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo: Plutone and Proserpina: Orpheus and Caronte's exchange
Composer: Jasdeep Singh Degun. Conductor: Laurence Cummings. Performer: Chandra Chakraborty. Performer: Dean Robinson. Performer: Kaviraj Singh. Performer: Nicholas Watts. Performer: Orchestra of Opera North. -
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425 8322.
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425 8322.
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425 8322.
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Gustav Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn vers. for voice & orch
Performer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 477-9060.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in G major Op.96 for violin and piano
Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.- ONYX.
- 4209.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 2 in C minor (Resurrection) for soprano, alto, chorus and orchestra
Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
- 5099964736327.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony no. 4 in E flat major (Romantic)
Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
- BPHR190281.
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425 8322.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
Performer: SimĂłn BolĂvar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 477-8775.
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425 8322.
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425 8322.
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John Oswald
JOHN OSWALD: Urge
Performer: John Oswald.- AVANT.
- AVAN016.
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The Avalanches
THE AVALANCHES: Since I Left You
- XL RECORDINGS.
- XLCD 138.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 2 in C minor (Resurrection) for soprano, alto, chorus and orchestra
Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
- 5099964736327.
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