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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
Valentina Barbarini and Elena Sorbi (performers)
Ensemble Prometeo & Livia Rado (sprechtstimme), Marco Angius
It's hard to think of a better, more lucid recording of Pierrot Lunaire currently available on CD...The disc is made even more fascinating by the fill-up...the music is spare, oblique and often...
Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
Valentina Barbarini and Elena Sorbi (performers)
Ensemble Prometeo & Livia Rado (sprechtstimme), Marco Angius
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It's hard to think of a better, more lucid recording of Pierrot Lunaire currently available on CD...The disc is made even more fascinating by the fill-up...the music is spare, oblique and often...
About
Die Schachtel, 'azione mimo-scenica' composed by Franco Evangelisti in 1962-1963 on an idea of the artist Franco Nonnis, represents a significant episode in the history of multimedia art. Evangelisti drew eight horizontal bands on large oblong sheets of paper and labelled them as follows: music, mimes, mimes’ voice, voice over, tape, general action, lighting, projections. The musical part is the most detailed, while for the others he merely put in sporadic indications. This performance comes from the Festival of International Modern and Contemporary Music Traiettorie, October 2010 at the Lenz Teatro, Parma, directed by Martina Traversa. Valentina Barbarini and Elena Sorbi are the performers. Special instruments were made by the craftsman, Giuseppe Bussi, to original drawings by Salvatore Sciarrino that resemble faithfully those designed by Evangelisti for the first performance of the work. There is a previous recording of 'Die Schachtel', with the soloists of the Munich Kammeroper conducted by Eberhard Schoener (DGG Avantgarde 2561 106), which made the work known to an international audience.
Contents and tracklist
- Livia Rado
- Ensemble Prometeo
- Marco Angius
- Livia Rado
- Ensemble Prometeo
- Marco Angius
- Livia Rado
- Ensemble Prometeo
- Marco Angius
- Livia Rado
- Ensemble Prometeo
- Marco Angius
Awards and reviews
5th September 2013
It's hard to think of a better, more lucid recording of Pierrot Lunaire currently available on CD...The disc is made even more fascinating by the fill-up...the music is spare, oblique and often puzzling – but also sometimes entrancingly beautiful.