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BERIO
Key work of the
20th century
Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia for eight
voices and orchestra (1968/9) is
one of the key works of 20 th century
musical history. The third movement
is introduced by a collage of
Mahler's Symphony No. 2, and it is
performed on 7 Sep at the Lucerne
Festival Academy as part of the
Festival Forum. Pierre Boulez
directs the Lucerne Festival Orchestra;
Ward Swingle leads the singers
of the Lucerne Festival Academy;
Roland Wachter chairs the Academy
Forum. Sinfonia is then performed
in full on 10 Sep.
Venezuelan conductor Gustavo
Dudamel has introduced two of
Berio's works into the repertoire of
the two orchestras he now leads as
principal conductor: Folk Songs
with the Göteborgs Symfoniker
and mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman
(Gothenburg/S, 5 Sep) and
also with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra and Dawn Upshaw
(Los Angeles, 11–15 Nov). Also
on the programme in Los Angeles
is Rendering, a reconstruction of
Schubert's sketches for his Symphony
No. 10, meticulous and radical
at the same time.
Laborintus II for voice, instruments
and recording holds a particular
place in Berio's musical dramatic
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output. The work can be performed
as a theatrical event, as an allegory,
as documentation, as mime, in theatres,
in concert halls, on television,
on the radio, outdoors, etc. Ensemble
Intercontemporain under Susanna
Mälkki gives a concert performance
of the work in Paris and
Strasbourg on 20 Sep and 3 Oct.