Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono's avant-garde partisanship was inseparable from a commitment to socialism, twin aspects of a revolt against bourgeois culture: hence his avoidance of normal concert genres in favour of opera and electronic music, his frequent recourse to political texts and his work in bringing music to factories.
Luigi Nono's avant-garde partisanship was inseparable from a commitment to socialism, twin aspects of a revolt against bourgeois culture: hence his avoidance of normal concert genres in favour of opera and electronic music, his frequent recourse to political texts and his work in bringing music to factories.
Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz / Sofferte Onde Serene / Contrappun
Luigi Nono began Como una ola de fuerza y luz (Like a wave of strength and light) as a piece for piano and orchestra in 1971, at the instigation of Maurizio Pollini. While the composition was in progress, Nono learned of the death of a young Chilean revolutionary and recast the work in his memory, with added parts for soprano soloist and tape. The resulting half hour work is clearly a lament, encompassing various expressions of grief, from stunned sorrow to anguish to the fiercest rage. As a kin…
Chamber Music By Luigi Nono
Recorded at Sentemo Records, Cessalto (Italy) on 30 January and 1-2-20 February 1993, except track 5 recorded live 4 May 1991 at Teatro Comunale, Ferrara (Italy). "Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica", for 6 instruments and percussion, composed in 1951. "La Fabbrica Illuminata", for voice and tape, composed in 1964. "...sofferte onde serene..." for piano and tape, composed in 1976-77. "Post-Prae-Ludium Per Donau" for tuba and live electronics, composed in 1987. "Con Luigi Dallapiccola" for 6 percussionis…
Complete works for solo tape
Double CD set compiling the complete music for solo tape by Luigi Nono. CD2 also includes two italian radio broadcasts (tracks 2.2 and 2.3) meant to be spoken introductions to the broadcast of Ricorda Cosa Ti Hanno Fatto In Auschwitz and Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente respectively. This two Disk set allows you here to survey Luigi Nono's contributions to this creative trajectory who also utilized live performers with electronics. Nono thought of the electronic genre as incredibly suitable to…
20 Jahre Inventionen V - live electronic
The live electronics that Nono worked with for the first time in the early 1980?s at the Freiburg Experimental Studio also serves the musical displacement: the music moves away from clear spatial and timbral assignations. Due to electronic processing, the sonic characteristics of both instruments, bass flute and cello, can hardly be recognized. Tones and gestures are lengthened into seeming infinity and move in space
A Carlo Scarpa · A Pierre · Guai Ai Gelidi Mostri
** Original 1990 edition LP, comes with a black and white 12-page booklet ** Edition RZ’s vinyl edition of three works by Luigi Nono - a pivotal figure of the Italian avant-garde - all composed and recorded in the mid ‘80s. A lesson in fine-tuning acoustic perceptions, meant for focussed reception in keeping with Nono’s concept of “new listenings”: "This no longer means revolutionizing the entire linguistic system ie. a subversive attack on the institution of music; rather it means progressively…