Luigi Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz, for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra & Magnetic Tape (1971-72) / ...sofferte onde serene... For Piano & Magnetic Tape (1976) / Contrapunto dialettico alla mente, for Magnetic Tape (1968) - Maurizio Pollini / Claudio Abbado
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 1988-07-25
Music Label: Polygram Int'l
Soundtracks:
- [Comienzo]
- Lusiano!
- En los vientos azar?sos
- [Entrada del piano]
- Voces de ni?os
- [Entrada de la orquesta]
- [Entrada de la orquesta y del piano]
Free Music Notes for Luigi Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz, for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra & Magnetic Tape (1971-72) / ...sofferte onde serene... For Piano & Magnetic Tape (1976) / Contrapunto dialettico alla mente, for Magnetic Tape (1968) - Maurizio Pollini / Claudio Abbado
Free Music Review: Massive sculptures of sound that transcend the gritty circumstances of their writing
Hit: 5 Stars
Any written account of Luigi Nono's music of the 1960s and 1970s inevitably focuses on two things. One is his commitment to musical modernism, becoming a core member of the Darmstadt group of composers and even marrying Arnold Schoenberg's daughter Nuria. The other prominent feature everyone talks about is his Communist zeal, which inspired nearly every work he wrote from his discovery of Marxism until the beginning of his late period in the late 1970s. The two were even combined, for Nono believed that musical modernism, with its demolition of tonal hierarchies, was a perfect music for the working class. Listening to this DG reissue of three of his pieces from this period, what impresses me most is how Nono's music is so much more than the features that get all the press.
Sure, "Como una ola de fuerza y luz" (1972) is inspired by the death of a Chilean revolutionary, and the cry "Lusiano joven como la revolucion siempre vivo" forms the sung text. Nonetheless, this transcends politics to form simply a monumentally awesome edifice of sound. It is scored in massive proportions: soprano, piano solo, orchestra and electronics (played on tape). At first, only the tape is heard, though what Nono put together for this is already rich and complex. Eventually the soprano enters, wailing the name of Nono's fallen friend. Subsequently, the piano enters, and finally the orchestra as a whole. Nono's music is modernist to be sure, but this is far from the sparse bleep-bloop serialism strongly identified with Darmstadt composers. For all the knotiness of the music, with its refusal to settle into anything approaching common-practice tonality, there is still a powerful sense of drama and direction.
The following two pieces are considerably smaller in scale, though they reveal further sides to Nono as a composer. "Contrapuntto dialettico alla mente" is a work for tape that has a variety of political readings electronically transformed. The result is entertaining listening for those who like old tape works (which admittedly is not everyone). The texts are given in the CD booklet, but I find the piece worthy just as a sonic abstraction even if I cannot understand what the voices are saying exactly. "...sofferte onde serene..." for piano and tape (1976) has a live pianist interacting with taped piano sounds, played on a speaker either inside or under the piano. Here one really admires how Nono could write a serialist piano work that, far from being monochromatic like earlier Darmstadt venues, is rich and dramatic.
The conductor Claudio Abbado was a close friend of Nono, as was pianist Maurizio Pollini, so these performances may be seen as definitive. I wouldn't recommend Nono to just anyone, but if you already have some experience with the post-war avant garde, Nono is a major figure and this disc makes a great introduction to his political era.
Luigi Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz, for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra & Magnetic Tape (1971-72) / ...sofferte onde serene... For Piano & Magnetic Tape (1976) / Contrapunto dialettico alla mente, for Magnetic Tape (1968) - Maurizio Pollini / Claudio Abbado Poster
Luigi Nono was One of the Most Original and Influential Composers to Emerge from Post War Italy. Having Always Guided by a Keen Awareness of Social Unity (He Joined Italy's Communist Party in 1952) Nono's Works Often Take the Form of Highly Empowering Expressive Public Spectacles. Here Among Others, Two of the Composers More Famous Longstanding Champions of his Work Mauricio Pollini and Claudio Abbado Perform Three of the Composers Most Evocative Works- the 'sofferte Onde Serene' and 'contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente' Written Specifically for Them. If You Enjoy the Efforts of Stockhausen and Ligeti, Nono Will Certainly Be of Interest as Well.Classical Music CDs
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