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Berio and Beyond

The latest in cutting-edge music. Also this week, recordings from Italian Radicals, the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra's exploration of the music of Luciano Berio and his contemporaries.

Tom Service explores the latest in new music with tracks from Dai Fujikura and Zoe Martlew and from Marianne Schofield and Hermes Experiment and the Copenhagen Clarinet Choir. And, to mark the centenary this weekend of the birth of Luciano Berio, Tom revisits the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra's Italian Radicals Total Immersion event with music by Berio himself and by his friends and contemporaries Luigi Nono and Bruno Maderna. And, at the heart of the programme, a performance from Munich conducted by Simon Rattle of Berio's Laborintus II, a white-hot piece of music theatre written to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri.

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Music Played

  • Anders Lauge Meldgaard

    Entering the fray

    Ensemble: Copenhagen Clarinet Choir.
    • Jeux d'eau.
    • 脜r & Dag.
    • 2.

  • Luciano Berio

    O King

    Ensemble: Guildhall School Musicians. Conductor: Simon Wills.

  • Luciano Berio

    Chemins II

    Performer: Paul Silverthorne. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson.

  • Dai Fujikura

    Luminous

    Performer: Joseph Pereira.
    • Luminous.
    • New Focus Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Zo毛 Martlew

    G-Lude (based on Bach)

    Performer: Zo毛 Martlew.
    • Album Z.
    • NMC.
    • 1.

  • Marianne Schofield

    Reimagining of BWV 721 by J. S. Bach

    Ensemble: Hermes Experiment.

  • Anders Lauge Meldgaard

    Uncharted streams

    Performer: Anders Lauge Meldgaard. Ensemble: Copenhagen Clarinet Choir.
    • Jeux d'eau.
    • 脜r & Dag.
    • 3.

  • Bruno Maderna

    Viola

    Performer: Dominic Stokes.

  • Luigi Nono

    ...sofferte onde serene

    Performer: David Palmer.

  • Luciano Berio

    Laborintus II

    Performer: Norbert Ommer. Singer: Anna-Maria Palii. Singer: Eunkyung Shin. Singer: Veronika Sammer. Narrator: Marie Goyette. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Angharad Davies

    Hydref i (extract)

    Composer: John Butcher. Performer: Angharad Davies. Performer: John Butcher.
    • Two Seasons.
    • Weight of Wax.
    • 1.

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  • Yesterday 22:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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