classical music: Luciano Berio     classical music:     Luciano Berio      20/21 - Berio: Sequenzas / Ensemble InterContemporain Christian Wirth, Pascal Gallois, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1999 Great. Written between 1958 and 1995, the Sequenzas are a kind of encyclopedia of 20th Century instrumental writing; Berio uses every kind of extended technique imaginable to produce a wide range of colors and textures. He obviously knows these instruments inside and out, ...             Luciano Berio: Formazioni / Folk Songs / Sinfonia Luciano Berio, Riccardo Chailly, ... London, 1990 A dazzling Berio sampler This recording highlights some of Berio's best pieces, and shows off the superb playing of this orchestra under Chailly, who obviously loves these scores. The original "Sinfonia" recording from the 1960's was marvelous, but this one has the fifth movement, added ...             Luciano Berio: Sequenzas I-XIV for Solo Instruments Wallace Halladay, Kenneth Munday, ... Naxos, 2006 Spectacular Playing of Extraordinarily Virtuosic Solo Works I thought I'd never say anything like this, but this music, from my relatively conservative perspective, is extremely thorny, even ugly, but I couldn't stop listening to it, it was so fascinating. And that's a lot of listening when you're talking about three CDs, ...             Berio: Sinfonia, Eindrucke Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez Apex/Warner Classics, 2006 Berio's masterpiece and another fine work, but get the budget reissue, and supplement it with Eotvos This disc of two Luciano Berio works in performance by the Orchestre National de France and Pierre Boulez was originally released on Erato in 1986. Thankfully, Warner Classics reissued it at budget price in 2001 in their "Apex" line, a bargain which the contemporary ...             20th Century Music For Unaccompanied Clarinet Paul Meyer, Luciano Berio, ... Denon Records, 1995 Great cd Paul Meyer plays incredibly here. I can't imagine why anyone would be disappointed with his sound. No, it's not the French sound of 40 years ago, but it's a beautiful, flexible sound that works beautifully in these pieces. The pieces on the cd are some of the high ...             Berio: Sinfonia; Ekphrasis Luciano Berio, Peter Eötvös, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 Good, comprable with the famed Boulez recording This recording is a good look at the Berio Sinfonia. I'll compare it to the Erato Boulez recording, which has been the towering recording of the Sinfonia. This recording has the mics closer to the instruments, and more engineering has been done to clarify textures. It ...             The Art of the Trumpet Hakan Hardenberger, Tomaso Albinoni, ... Decca, 2007 The Art of Trumpet This was a gift to my brother, and within 24 hours of giving it to him, he was already raving about it. He told me "The CD you got me is AMAZING, thank you!" Very nice CD in his words, just what he wanted.             Berio: The Complete Sequenzas, Alternate Sequenzas & Works for Solo Instruments Luciano Berio, Edoardo Sanguineti, ... Mode, 2006 Wonderful music, well played This is an incredible collection of pieces from an important modern composer...played by an incredible collection of performers. Some of them are famous, others deserve to be. The variety of sounds, the skillful use of different instruments and voices, and the ...             The 20th-Century Cello Matt Haimovitz, Luciano Berio, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 Great playing, great listening This set has wonderful qualities on quite a few levels. What you have here are clear modern renditions of pieces by some of the best known composing names of the last century, recorded in modern sound by one of my personal favorite cellists around today. Haimovitz ...             Osvaldo Golijov: Ayre Osvaldo Golijov, Dawn Upshaw, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 Not original? Ha! So, I ended up buying this album not for the main piece, Golijov's Ayre but for Upshaw's version of Berio's Folksongs. In fact, in the length of time I've had this disc, which has been a couple of months, at least, I never even once attempted listening to Golijov's ...             Flute XX Luciano Berio, Claude Debussy, ... Arts Music, 1996 Great compendium of flute avant-garde history Fabbriciani is a premiere Italian, well European flutist. He has single-handily inherited Severino Gazzelloni revered place. The flute in the early Fifties for the serial avant-garde proved to be a fertile ground. Everyone wrote an unaccompanied solo and the ...             Flute Visions of the 20th Century Bela Bartok, Luciano Berio, ... Hungaroton, 1996             Berio: Folk Songs; Sequenza VI for viola; Les Mots sont allés... for cello; Boulez: Dérive Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, ... Arts Music, 1997 Idiomatic Berio performances, but not enough music This disc, featuring the Italian ensemble Contempoartensemble under its director Mauro Ceccanti, concentrates on two important works by Luciano Berio. It's a good idea to have an Italian group record Berio (unsurpringly, they show a good understanding of his music, as ...             Mahler: 5 frühe Lieder / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Thomas Hampson, Gustav Mahler, ... Elektra / Wea, 1994 More Songs from the master, Gustav Mahler This Teldec's 1994 recording of songs by Gustav Mahler remains a collection that merits a place in the library of every Mahlerite. Following the scholarly interests of performers Thomas Hampson and composer/conductor Luciano Berio this recording explores the aspect of ...             Luciano Berio: Laborintus 2 Luciano Berio, Ensemble Musique Vivante, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2000 Insane, wonderful, marvellously inventive Where else could you summon up a chorus, three sopranos, a speaker, three harps and something that sounds like a jazz orchestra? This piece specialises in some amazing vocal effects that have to do with the extension of vibration and note into time, like arrows flying ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music 20th-century, formazioni, instruments, intercontemporain, laborintus, unaccompanied      toavi.com    web randomly chosen VHS: Rubin & Ed