Neil McCauley
29-09-2016, 08:12
It’s mostly because of its associations with another composer, Mahler, that Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, composed for the New York Philharmonic between 1967 and 69, is now firmly established as his best-known work. Berio’s virtuoso use of the Scherzo of the Resurrection Symphony as the matrix for an allusive journey through music history, in which Mahler’s music becomes the scaffolding on to which he fixed a whole gallery of quotations from other composers, is the spectacularly successful centrepiece of the five-movement work, and the perfect introduction to Berio’s richly allusive musical world.
Continues at https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/28/berio-sinfonia-mahler-10-early-songs-cd-review-goerne-pons-harmonia-mundi
Continues at https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/28/berio-sinfonia-mahler-10-early-songs-cd-review-goerne-pons-harmonia-mundi