IDAGIO | Nono: Como una Ola de Fuerza y Luz & ...Sofferte onde serene... - Assis: Unfolding Waves... Con Luigi Nono 9120040731083

Featuring

André Richard
Claudia Barainsky
Jan Michiels
Peter Rundel
Reinhold Braig
Paulo De Assis

Léo Warynski
Experimentalstudio des SWR
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Luigi Nono

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Compositional Technique

Both of Nono's piano pieces on this album, Como una ola de fuerza y luz and .....sofferte onde serene…, include electronic tapes with acoustic materials consisting of piano sounds recorded by Maurizio Pollini, the pianist for whom they were composed.

Composition History

Luigi Nono's Como una ola de fuerza y luz was originally planned as a piece for piano and orchestra but changed dramatically after the unexpected death of Luciano Cruz, a young revolutionary.

Recording & Production

This recording of Luigi Nono's .....sofferte onde serene… features a newly produced reconstruction of the original stereophonic tape, which had been lost, bringing back the intended interplay between monophonic and stereophonic sections.

Compositional Technique

In Como una ola de fuerza y luz, Luigi Nono uses highly complex post-serial compositional techniques within tight clusters of quarter tones, with most passages contained within an interval of a tritone or octave.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Luigi Nono's late style, beginning with .....sofferte onde serene…, shifted away from explicit political messages to focus on intrinsic musical structures, subtle harmonic fields, and a dialogue with historical forms.

Composition History

Paulo de Assis's unfolding waves… con luigi nono was originally intended as a transcription of Nono's .....sofferte onde serene… for two orchestras but evolved into an autonomous work.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Luigi Nono's piece Como una ola de fuerza y luz is a secular requiem, using instruments to personify characters: the piano as Luciano Cruz, the soprano as a female figure, the orchestra as the state apparatus, and the tape as a commentator.