{"product_id":"various-sound-silence-four-pioneering-modernist-italian-composers-cd","title":"Various - Sound \u0026 Silence: Four Pioneering Modernist Italian Composers (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSealed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree CD collection featuring four pioneering modernist Italian composers. Although 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. In 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. Morricone 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. Morricone 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. In 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 it's 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\u003eDisc 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eENNIO MORRICONE: LA VOGLIA MATTA (The Crazy Desire)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\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 (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: IL 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\u003eDisc 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLUCIANO BERIO: Sinfonia, for orchestra and eight amplified voices (original version in Four Movements)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Section I\u003cbr\u003e2 Section II (O King)\u003cbr\u003e3 Section III (With Quietly Flowing Movement)\u003cbr\u003e4 Section IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Swingle Singers Orchestre Philharmonique de la RTF. Conductor: Bruno Maderna\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Sequenza No. 1, for Flute Solo Severino Gazzelloni: Flute\u003cbr\u003e6 Différences, for Flute, Clarinet, Viola, Cello, Harp and Magnetic Tape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eConductor: Luciano Berio 7 Gesti, for Recorder Solo Frans Brüggen: Recorder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLUCIANO BERIO AND BRUNO MADERNA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Ritratto Di Città (Portrait of the City: Study for a Radio Play) (1954)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eProduced at the Studio Di Fonologia Musicale in Milan of Rai, Italian Radio and Television. 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