Luciano Berio

Amazing book-bound storage binder collecting 16 10" albums issued in the historical La Musica Moderna collection, without covers/magazines, published by Fratelli Fabbri in the late 1960's as a panorama of avant-garde music in the 20th century.

Two beautiful vocal pieces from the mid-1970's performed by Swingle II conducted by the composer himself, released on Decca's "Headline" contemporary music series in 1976. With booklet.

Still sealed copy of obscure compilation on pop/disco label Real Sound with contemporary music compositions for clarinet performed by Gaspare Tirincanti. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Five avant-garde compositions for solo flute (two with piano) by European and Japanese contemmporary composers spanning from 1948 to 1969 performed by Aurèle Nicolet and released on Wergo's "Große Interpreten neuer Musik" series in 1969 (German edition). Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Five avant-garde compositions for solo flute (two with piano) by European and Japanese contemmporary composers spanning from 1948 to 1969 performed by Aurèle Nicolet and released on Trio Records in 1969 (Japanese edition). Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With insert.

Original UK edition on Turnabout's explorative and ground-breaking "Electronic Music" series of the 1966 album presenting three classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions.

1967 re-press (Allentown) of the second album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting three classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions originally released in 1966.

Original US pressing of the third album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting four classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions, released in 1967.

Eleven compositions for the 80th Birthday of Dr. Alfred A. Kalmus by some of the most representative composers of avant-garde (David Bedford, Hugh Wood, Pierre Boulez, Richard Rodney Bennett, Luciano Berio, Cristobal Halffter, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Harrison Birtwistle, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bernard Rands, Henri Pousseur) released on Universal Edition in 1976.

Four avant-garde chamber pieces composed between 1921 and 1967 conducted by Gilbert Amy, released on Disques Adès in 1968.

Four important works for solo instruments (flute, voice, trombone) and for female voice, harp and 2 percussionists, spanning from 1958 to 1966, performed by Cathy Berberian and Vinko Globokar a.o., released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.

Five pieces for solo instruments or small ensembles spanning from 1951 to 1969, recorded under the direction of the composer himself and performed by Cathy Berberian and Heinz Holliger a.o., released on Philips' "Modern Music Series" in 1969.

1973 recital conducted by the composer himself released in the UK on RCA Red Seal in the same year. With insert.

Several vocal pieces spanning from 1952 to 1972 performed by the London Sinfonietta conducted by the composer himself, released by RCA Red Seal in 1975. With insert.

Two great vocal pieces from the mid-1970's performed by the Swingle Singers conducted by the composer himself and released on Decca's "Headline" contemporary music series in 1976. With insert.

Three orchestral pieces spanning from 1956 to 1973 conducted by the composer himself and by Pierre Boulez, released on RCA Red Seal in 1976.

Two contemporary pieces for solo trombone by Mauricio Kagel and Luciano Berio, plus three other historical pieces by Saint-Saëns, von Weber and Stojowski, released on Telefunken in 1980 and never re-issued on either LP or CD.

condition (record/sleeve): VG+ (occasional pops) / VG- (browning on bottom back cover + general wear) A stunning vocal tour-de-force! Cathy Berberian delivers an extraordinary performance of Luciano Berio's Recital I (For Cathy), a groundbreaking work blending theatrical recitation, operatic singing, and avant-garde vocal techniques. Accompanied by The London Sinfonietta, this 1972 recording captures one of the most innovative voice-and-ensemble pieces of the 20th century. Berberian's interpreti…

condition (record/sleeve): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG (general yellowing + creases on lamination partly peeling off)  Includes 4-page  LP-size insert. Essential Berio! This exceptional Wergo release features Cathy Berberian in a virtuosic performance of Circles (1960), Berio's mesmerizing setting of e.e. cummings poetry for female voice, harp, and two percussionists. The album also includes three of Berio's celebrated Sequenze – solo works that pushed instr…

condition (record/cover): EX/EX Spectacular Berio orchestral works! This RCA release presents three major compositions showcasing the Italian master's command of large-scale ensemble writing. Nones (1954), inspired by W.H. Auden's poem, is a powerful meditation for orchestra. Allelujah II (1958) transforms the voices and gestures of its predecessor into pure instrumental drama. The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1973) displays Berio's characteristic blend of virtuosity, wit, and structur…

condition (record/cover): EX/VG+ (minimal ring wear on back + sticker on front). Berio conducting Berio – with Cathy Berberian! A definitive recording of two essential vocal works by the composer himself. Epifanie (1961-63) is a complex, multi-layered masterpiece for soprano and orchestra, weaving together texts by Proust, Joyce, Machado, Brecht, and Sanguineti in a kaleidoscopic meditation on memory and meaning. Folk Songs (1964) shows Berio's genius for transformation – eleven traditional song…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX (minimal cover wear). Includes 8-page silk-screened insert. Luciano Berio's Laborintus 2 (1965) is an epic sonic labyrinth created for the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. This extraordinary composition weaves together Dante's texts, fragments from T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and contemporary poetry by Edoardo Sanguineti into a stunning tapestry for voices, instruments, and tape. Featuring speaker, three female voices, eight actors, and ensemble, Laborintus 2 is…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX- (very small white tag on front) Distinguished violist Aldo Bennici presents works by five towering figures of the Italian avant-garde: Salvatore Sciarrino, Sylvano Bussotti, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, and Franco Donatoni. This collection represents the finest contemporary viola writing from Italy's post-war generation of composers, each exploring the instrument's expressive possibilities through distinctive compositional languages. From Sciarrino's delicate so…

condition (record/cover): VG+ (surface noise) / EX (minimal spine wear) Gatefold sleeve. An essential collaboration between two titans of contemporary music interpretation! Severino Gazzelloni (1919-1992), the legendary Italian flutist who redefined the instrument's possibilities in the post-war avant-garde, joins forces with Aloys Kontarsky (1931-2017), the German pianist renowned for his definitive interpretations of Stockhausen, Boulez, and the European serialist repertoire. This Time Records…

condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / EX-  Oversize gatefold sleeve - no magazine. A landmark coupling of two masters of European post-war modernism! Luciano Berio's Circles (1960), one of his most celebrated works, sets texts by e.e. cummings for soprano, harp, and two percussionists - a virtuosic exploration of phonetic and semantic dimensions performed by the incomparable Cathy Berberian, for whom the work was written. Berio's spatial disposi…

1989 release ** 20th Century piano music by Nikolai Roslavetz, Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Brian Ferneyhough, Sylvano Bussotti, Salvatore Sciarrino.

2009 release ** "Denissow avoids postmodern clutter by putting critical distance between himself and the music - this is a fantasy. Jürg Henneberger and Hedwig Fassbender avoid the hard sell, keeping the make-believe sound world allusive and inscrutable. And they bring comparable qualities to one of the best Folk Song cycles around - a work whose charms have, arguably, been dinted by overfamiliarity but that has now been calmly reassessed."

1990 release ** Luciano Berio: Ricorrenze Salvatore Sciarrino: Quintettino #2 Luca Francesconi: Attesa Ludovico Einaudi: Ai margini dell' aria Armando Gentilucci: Cile 1973 Giorgio Federico Ghedini: Quintetto #1 "The collection here draws together pieces from the "hard" wing of post-World War II composers. The Arnold Quintet plays all this music with flair, wit, and understanding. Berio is probably the best-known name on the disc, and I enjoyed his Ricorrenze ("Recurrence") more than the other p…

1999 release **

1990 release **

1992 release **  Luciano Berio: DuettiBruno Maderna: WidmungGyörgy Kurtag: Eight Duos Maryvonne Le Dizès (Violin)Christophe Poiget (Violin)Michel Cerutti (Cymbalum)Alain Damiens (Conductor)

1988 release **

Inkjet Print on Hahnemuehle Paper / 48 x 32 cm. David Lieske's ‘La Collectionneuse (Oscar)’ is a visual translation of the first page of ‘Allez Hop’ by Luciano Berio and Italo Calvino, an experimental work composed between 1952 and 1959 that fuses avant-garde literature and music.  Liske’s work is part of a collaboration between SZ Sugar and MIART, which encourages artists to explore the intersection of music and visual art. With the proposed work, I’d like to address the tension between “the wr…

Circles is one of Luciano Berio's most captivating works: a setting of three poems by e.e. cummings for female voice, harp and two percussionists, in which the words are gradually taken apart into their sounds and the singer moves physically among the instruments, so that voice and percussion end up trading roles. It was written for Cathy Berberian, the "Callas" of new music, and her performance here remains the reference. Around it are three of the Sequenzas, Berio's lifelong series of virtuoso…

**Edition of 500. 180 gram vinyl** Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Serenata I/Sonatine/Canteyodjaya/Zeitmasze, originally released in 1958. The avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez was a titan of post-war experimental classical music. Born in the small cheesemaking town of Montrbrison in central France in 1925, Boulez studied at the Paris Conservatoire with the composer and organist Charles Messiaen and received private tuition from pianist Andrée Vaurabourg; after moving…

Three discs, three distinct worlds - each one a landmark. Vol. 5 of Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series may be the most dramatically varied installment in the entire programme, arcing from the handmade electronic circuitry of four American mavericks to one of the great piano sonatas of the 20th century, and closing with the golden tone of the most celebrated flutist of the post-war avant-garde. The first disc is Electric Sound, the only album the Sonic Arts Union ever released as a group. Or…

Vocal works by Luciano Berio, among them Folk Songs, Sequenza III, Chamber Music, O King and Circles, sung by Christine Schadeberg with Musicians Accord, reissued with the first recording of Quattro Canzoni Popolari.

Finally restocked! After five years of intense, passionate and sometimes painful work Die Schachtel (in collaboration with RAI) is proud to announce the release of the long-awaited massive Book (Edited by Angela Ida de Benedictis and Maddalena Novati) with 6CDs boxed edition dedicated to some of the most compelling Italian radio works which took part in the prestigious Prix Italia, a world-famous contest established by the RAI (the National Italian broadcasting company) in the early Sixties and …

The renowned American architects Sullivan, Wright and Mies van der Rohe are the center of attention in the composition Ekphrasis [Continuo II], even though originally Berio had no such thing in mind: "While I was working on Continuo, it was not my intention to compose a metaphor for architecture, or write a homage to the famous Chicago architects... Neither did I refer directly to the amusing but nevertheless solid constructions by Renzo Piano... However, as the work progressed I became aware th…

A king listens: its subtitle identifies Un Re in ascolto, this special combination of music and drama, as a "musical action by Luciano Berio and Italo Calvino". A dialogue between composer and writer, between different forms of theater – and also, if you like, between Shakespeare and Thomas Bernhard. And, indeed, he is a "Theatermacher", an impresario, this Prospero (Theo Adam), who is accompanied by the director (Heinz Zednik) and the actor "Friday" (Helmut Lohner) and to whom a musical and sce…