Sinfonia - Luciano Berio

Electric Phoenix and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly. I - 0:00 II - O King. Immobile e lontano: 5:56 III - In ruhig fließender Bewegung - (attacca): 10:22 IV - 21:36 V - 24:53 Sinfonia (composed between 1968-9) is a musically innovative work, with vocalists commenting about musical topics as the piece twists and turns through a seemingly neurotic journey of quotations and dissonant passages. The voices are used in a non-traditional way; they do not sing at all, but speak, whisper and shout words by Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose “Le cru et le cuit“ provides much of the text, excerpts from Samuel Beckett’s novel “The Unnamable“, instructions from the scores of Gustav Mahler and other writings. In the first movement, Berio uses texts from “Le cru et le cuit“ (The Raw and the Cooked) by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. The form of the piece is also inspired in him, who in his work on mythology