Music for small chorus, bass flute, contrabass clarinet and live electronics.
These recordings were made during a concert in the series Zeitfluss in 2001
in collaboration with the Salzburg Festival and with the support of the
Ernst on Siemens music festival in Salzburg. In order to create the most
authentic possible testimony to the performance practices of Nono's music,
interpreters who had performed the work during Nono's lifetime were engaged
for the recordings whenever possible.
The period that has been discussed as marking a possible "turning point"
within Luigi Nono’s oeuvre - beginning with the premiere of the string quartet
Fragmente - Stille, An Diotima (1979/80) by the LaSalle Quartet in summer
1980 - is also that in which these two works were written. The composer himself
saw them as the decisive steps on the way to Promento, his "tragedy of
listening": he viewed Das atmende Klarsein as a real breakthrough,
although even today the string quartet is usually seen as introducing the
alarming new aspect of the "late" Nono.
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The Four Seasons (Il quattro stagione), concertos (4) for violin, strings & continuo ('Il cimento' Nos. 1-4) , Op. 8/1 - 4
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Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in E flat major ('La tempesta di mare'; 'Il cimento' No. 5), Op.8/5, RV 253
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Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in C major ('Il piacere'; 'Il Cimento' No. 6), Op. 8/6, RV 180
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