Berio: Sinfonia & Berio/Mahler: Frühe Lieder

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We have only to listen to [Berio’s] exquisite song orchestrations, graced with Goerne on riveting, vibrant form, to feel the depth of his empathy, an almost palpable longing to be absorbed into... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Sep 2016
Catalogue No: HMC902180
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 61 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

16th September 2016
BBC Music Magazine Awards

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Book 3

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Matthias Goerne, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons

XI. Ablösung im Sommer

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X. Zu Straβburg auf der Schanz

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XIII. Nicht wiedersehen!

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Book 2

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Matthias Goerne, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons

VI. Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Book 1

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Matthias Goerne, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons

II. Erinnerung

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III. Hans und Grete

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Book 2

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Matthias Goerne, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons

VII. Ich ging mit Lust

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Book 1

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Matthias Goerne, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons

I. Frühlingsmorgen

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V. Phantasie aus "Don Juan"

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Book 3

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Matthias Goerne, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons

XII. Scheiden und Meiden

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Berio: Sinfonia

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The Synergy Vocals, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons

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II. O King

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III. In ruhig fliessender Bewegung

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V. [Untitled]

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Recording of the Week, Synergy Vocals and Matthias Goerne perform music by Luciano Berio and Gustav Mahler

16th September 2016

James listens to a formidable account of Berio's Sinfonia with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Synergy Vocals.

"Since it was first performed in 1969, Luciano Berio's Sinfonia has become a classic, certainly the most widely known of all his works and arguably the most successful concert piece by a composer of his generation." The Guardian

This release is dedicated to the pioneer of Italian modernism Luciano Berio. His 5-movement 'Sinfonia', is undoubtedly his most well-known work, written for the New York Philharmonic and dedicated to Leonard Bernstein. It has become one of the key works and principle musical manifestations of the 1960s bringing together collage technique and modernism.

A few years later, Berio went on to orchestrate a number of songs on texts from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn', which Mahler had scored for piano and voice, as if they had been written at the time of the later 'Kindertotenlieder'. A symphonic backcloth tailor-made for the great baritone voice of Matthias Goerne [whose 'Knaben Wunderhorn' songs are already available on DVD, with Andris Nelsons, from Lucerne]. His warm, dark voice allows him to capture the sombre and tragic atmosphere of this music like no one else.

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Christmas 2016

We have only to listen to [Berio’s] exquisite song orchestrations, graced with Goerne on riveting, vibrant form, to feel the depth of his empathy, an almost palpable longing to be absorbed into that lost Viennese world…this coupling is a must-have

December 2016

Matthias Goerne projects each song with ursine power and humour, albeit in slightly frayed voice. His larger-than-life stage persona fits Berio’s vividly faithful arrangements…this new [recording] feels even truer to the spirit of '68 which inspired Sinfonia

16th September 2016

any attempt to describe this [third] movement can't possibly do full justice to how extraordinary an accomplishment it is; it's much more than simply copying out some Mahler and throwing in a few other bits and pieces, and the overall effect in performance is remarkable, shifting from violent orchestral outbursts to some truly sublime moments.

9th October 2016

Berio’s Sinfonia, premiered in 1968, remains an incomparably rich conundrum...On a disc such as this outstanding one, balance can be contrived so that the throng of words is audible to just the right degree.

28th September 2016

Berio’s skilful arrangements invoke a similar soundworld as Mahler’s own orchestrations of his songs: it’s colourful, slightly brittle, and vividly pointed up by Pons...Goerne gives the vocal lines the slightly larger-than-life quality they need, exaggerating their expressive extremes and running through his full palette of baritonal shades.

22nd October 2016

Goerne summons a dark, curdled tone, which can switch in an instant to a delicate tenderness...Altogether, this disc is a wonderful introduction to one of the 20th century’s great composers.

26th October 2016

Pons’s new, gorgeously textured performance couples the endlessly fascinating work with Berio’s two-decades-later, light-touch orchestrations of Mahler songs, sung with heart-piercing point by Matthias Goerne.

Berio: Sinfonia & Berio/Mahler: Frühe Lieder

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Recording of the Week, Synergy Vocals and Matthias Goerne perform music by Luciano Berio and Gustav Mahler

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