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#GianFrancescoMalipiero 1882 – 1973

Pantea: Symphonic Drama (1919)

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#BrunoMaderna

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4t8mBHI2ng

witold lutosławski: three poems by henri michaux (1961-1963)

info:
https://archive.org/details/lp_three-poems-by-henri-michaux_witold-lutoslawski/disc1/01.02.+Postlude+For+Orchestra.mp3

“I chose the three poems by Henri Michaux after I had made a general outline of the work. The selected texts in turn influenced the development of details of the music form. The poem, its sense, its structure must have impacted the music of my work. Anyway, such was my intention. If I had acted otherwise, if the words of the text were to have been just another sound element of music, it would have been abuse, artistic insincerity or at least a misunderstanding”.

“The performers are allowed a lot of freedom in treating the rhythmic values of their parts. The point is to produce some highly complex rhythm and sound textures with the least technical difficulty for singers and musicians. The mind of each performer is therefore a factor which I strive to include in the set of means of composing. This attitude opposes a mechanical, abstract approach to sound. My attitude aims to restore the pleasure which the performer felt when reproducing a work of music. I try to make use of every performer’s individual strengths and capabilities and sometimes demand that they play or sing in a large group with such ease as if they were playing or singing on their own”.

© Witold Lutoslawski (Introduction to a 1965 BBC programme)

Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994): Trois Poèmes d’Henri Michaux, per coro e orchestra (1963) — ORF-Chor Wien e ORF-Symphonieorchester Wien diretti da Bruno Maderna (live Salisburgo 29.VII.1973)

#audio #BrunoMaderna #HenriMichaux #Michaux #music #musica #ORFChorWien #ORFSymphonieorchesterWien #poems #record #TroisPoèmesDHenriMichaux #WitoldLutosławski

un’ora con bruno maderna / gastone favero. 1971

https://youtu.be/znFDdujx9HM?si=SJtMDxlWr__zWWIB

Director: Gastone Favero
Production: RAI
Year: 1971

Bruno Maderna, (born April 21, 1920, Venice, Italy—died Nov. 13, 1973, Darmstadt, W.Ger.), Italian composer of avant-garde and electronic music and a noted conductor.

Maderna studied with well-known teachers, including the Italian composer Gian Francesco Malipiero and the German conductor Hermann Scherchen. In 1941 he received his degree in composition at Rome from the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia. He expanded his musical activities after World War II, becoming known through his association with the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (International Vacation Course for New Music) at Darmstadt, a centre of avant-garde musical teaching and composition. With his friend the composer Luciano Berio, Maderna founded the Studio di Fonologia Musicale at Milan Radio in Italy in 1954; the studio became a major laboratory for electronic music in Europe. With Berio he also founded a review devoted to electronic and avant-garde music, Incontri Musicali (“Musical Encounters”). Maderna later taught composition in Milan, at the Dartington Summer School of Music, Devon, Eng., and elsewhere.

Maderna’s music showed him to be an expressive lyric composer as well as an experimenter. His Serenata (1954) is a colourful orchestral work noteworthy for its subtle sonorities and polyrhythms. The Notturno for tape (1956) and Sintaxis for four different, unspecified electronic timbres (tone colours) display his interest in new sonorities. His oboe concerto (1962) reveals a more conventional viewpoint, although even in this he made use of small-scale aleatory (chance and improvisatory) operations.

Maderna conducted widely and recorded extensively, including many works of his contemporaries.

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un’ora con bruno maderna / gastone favero. 1971 http://slowforward.net/2025/01/13/unora-con-bruno-maderna-gastone-favero-1971/
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nb: il 1971 è in #letteratura anche un inizio di #riflusso, non a caso le domande di un'intervista interna al documentario sono tipiche, tipicissime, di un clima intellettualmente reazionario: ma #Maderna ribatte sornione e preciso.
le stesse domande tornano nel 1989, nel 2006, e ancora oggi. #revenants

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#darmstadt

Karen Philips - "Viola Today" (1974)

#NowPlaying #KarenPhillips #JohnCage #BrunoMaderna #DavidBedford #LucianoBerio #viola #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

What if Hammer made an opera film?

Wozzeck, a film by Joachim Hess with Toni Blankenheim as Wozzeck (1970), gives us a possible answer to that question: an atmospheric impression of Berg's opera with the right dose of creepiness.

Conducted by Bruno Maderna (born 21 April 1920)

#opera #film #horror #classicalmusic #wozzeck #AlbanBerg #BrunoMaderna