{"title":"Ennio Morricone \/ Luciano Berio \/ Bruno Maderna \/ Luigi Nono","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"sound-and-silence-four-pioneering-modernist-italian-composers","title":"Sound and Silence - Four Pioneering Modernist Italian Composers","description":"\u003cp\u003e3CD collection featuring four pioneering modernist Italian composers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough he was a superb melodist, it was in his deployment of a whole landscape of non-musical sounds, dissonant harmonies and silence, that Ennio Morricone revolutionised film music. His audacity, and his diverse musical palette (manifest in the spaghetti westerns he scored for Sergio Leone) came less from cinema than from the pioneering post-war generation of 'New Music' composers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1958 Morricone attended a summer courses in New Music in Darmstadt, Germany; where he immersed himself in the works of the leading figures of contemporary music; Stockhausen, Varèse, Berio, Ligeti, Cage, Messiaen, Boulez, Maderna, Nono. The mood was one of excitement and adventure where the outer limits of music's artistic and conceptual universe were questioned and fearlessly explored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorricone described Darmstadt as a turning point in his life. He felt compelled to react to what he learned there, feeling that the experience helped define his personal voice, his musical identity. Certainly Morricone's signature styles are are easily detected in the three delightful early soundtracks featured in this edition; including among the selections from il Federale, the maestro's very first film as primary composer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorricone respected his Italian contemporaries, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna and Luigi Nono. He was deeply impressed by two of Nono's works; Il canto sospeso for solo soprano, alto and tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra, and Cori di Didone for mixed chorus end orchestra, which he claimed, \"hit me down in my core\". Both compositions are included here along with Berio's Sinfonia, for orchestra and eight amplified voices, a rich collage of words and voices and sounds which has been compared to a live 1960s Happening. One of the principal modernist works of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1954, Berio and Maderna founded Italy's first studio of electronic music, in Milan. The first work to emerge, the radio study, Ritratto di Città (Portrait of a City) is presented here in its entirety along with other significant works by Berio and Maderna including the first Sequenza for flute, and Gesti for recorder, virtuoso pieces that the player to the limits of his or her technical ability. Bruno Maderna's genius as both composer and conductor is showcased by his magical Serenata no. 2 and by his elegant account of Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC ONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC ONEENNIO MORRICONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLA VOGLIA MATTA (The Crazy Desire)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1    Agosto jazz\u003cbr\u003e2    Caporal Twist\u003cbr\u003e3    Nuvole\u003cbr\u003e4    Sole e sogni\u003cbr\u003e5    Desiderio di te\u003cbr\u003e6    Francesca\u003cbr\u003e7    Un povero matusa\u003cbr\u003e8    Miraggio africano\u003cbr\u003e9    I nuovi giovani\u003cbr\u003e10    Nuvole (Scat version)\u003cbr\u003e11    Caporal Twist No. 2\u003cbr\u003e12    Ritorno a casa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDICIOTTENNI AL SOLE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e(Eighteen in the Sun)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13    Nicole (Instrumental version)\u003cbr\u003e14    Cha cha cha delle diciottenni\u003cbr\u003e15    Cos'e un bacio\u003cbr\u003e16    Nicole (Vocal version)\u003cbr\u003e17    Swingin' ischia\u003cbr\u003e18    Diciottenni in piscina\u003cbr\u003e19    Evelyn\u003cbr\u003e20    Franca\u003cbr\u003e21    Arrivano le ragazze\u003cbr\u003e22    Nicole e Nicola\u003cbr\u003e23    Una vivace commedia American\u003cbr\u003e24    Marcetta disinvolta\u003cbr\u003e25    Atmosfera giallo rosa\u003cbr\u003e26    Lello\u003cbr\u003e27    Nicole (Harpsichord version)\u003cbr\u003e28    Night romantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eENNIO MORRICONE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIL FEDERALE (The Fascist)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29    Titoli\u003cbr\u003e30    Combattimento\u003cbr\u003e31    Tema di Bonafé\u003cbr\u003e32    Colloquio\u003cbr\u003e33    Arcovazzi e Bonafé in viaggio\u003cbr\u003e34    Ritrovamento\u003cbr\u003e35    Desiderio di Matilde\u003cbr\u003e36    Fuga di Bonafé\u003cbr\u003e37    Pullman in avaria\u003cbr\u003e38    Inseguimento\u003cbr\u003e39    Campo minato\u003cbr\u003e40    Bonafe' al convento\u003cbr\u003e41    La fine del viaggio\u003cbr\u003e42    Finale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDISC TWO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLUCIANO BERIO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSinfonia, for orchestra and eight amplified voices (original version in Four Movements)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1  Section I\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2  Section II (O King)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3  Section III (With quietly flowing movement)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4  Section IV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Swingle Singers Orchestre Philharmonique de la RTF. Conductor: Bruno Maderna\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5  Sequenza No. 1, for flute solo Severino Gazzelloni: flute\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6  Différences, for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, harp and magnetic tape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConductor: Luciano Berio 7 Gesti, for recorder solo Frans Brüggen: recorder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLUCIANO BERIO AND BRUNO MADERNA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 Ritratto di Città (Portrait of the City: Study for a Radio Play) (1954)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProduced at the Studio di Fonologia Musicale in Milan of RAI, Italian Radio and Television. 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