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20 - Berio, Stockhausen (Boulez, Ligeti, Nono, Messiaen, Cage, Adams, Reich)
Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, John Adams, Steve Reich
- Label
- L'Espresso
- Catalog number
- none
- Released
- 2006
- Country
- Italy
- Format
- Compilation
What’s on it
20 - Berio, Stockhausen (Boulez, Ligeti, Nono, Messiaen, Cage, Adams, Reich) has 12 tracks, about 1:59:32 of music. Open a track to see who wrote, played on and produced it.
1.1I
- Composed By
- Luciano Berio
1.6Sequenza III Per Voce Femminile
- Composed By
- Luciano Berio
1.7Dérive
- Composed By
- Pierre Boulez
1.81. Fantasque Modéré
- Composed By
- Pierre Boulez
1.12Lux Aeterna, Per Coro Misto A Cappella Di 16 Voci
- Composed By
- György Ligeti
1.13...Sofferte Onde Serene...
- Composed By
- Luigi Nono
2.1Gruppen Für Drei Orchester - Werk N. 6
- Composed By
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
2.2N.8 L'Alouette Calandrelle
- Composed By
- Olivier Messiaen
2.3N.8 Louange à L'Immortalité De Jésus
- Composed By
- Olivier Messiaen
2.4Bacchanale
- Composed By
- John Cage
2.5Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ
- Composed By
- Steve Reich
2.6The Chairman Dances
- Composed By
- John Adams
Where to find one
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Where it came from
This compilation was released in 2006 as part of a series curated by the Italian weekly news magazine L'Espresso. The series was designed to provide a broad introduction to the complexities of 20th-century avant-garde and contemporary classical music, aiming to make historically challenging works accessible to a wider audience of magazine subscribers. By packaging these pieces together, L'Espresso sought to offer a curated gateway into modern composition, reflecting the cultural mission of the publication to inform its readers on significant artistic movements of the preceding decades.
The disc functions as an anthology, gathering quintessential works from a diverse group of composers including Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Steve Reich. The selection highlights key shifts in musical language, ranging from the serialism favored by Pierre Boulez and Luigi Nono to the meditative minimalism of John Adams and the aleatoric influence of John Cage. As a promotional release, the collection relies on established recordings of these seminal pieces, serving not as a new studio interpretation but as a scholarly summary of the intellectual currents that defined the modern musical canon.
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