Luciano Berio
Canticum novissimi testamenti
Short instrumentation: cl(Eb), 2 cl(Bb), bass cl(Bb), sop.sax, alto sax, t.sax, bar.sax
Duration: 23'
Text von: Edoardo Sanguineti
Übersetzer: Birgid Schlichting
Dedication: a Massimo Mila in memoriam
Choir: 2S, 2A, 2T, 2B
Instrumentation details:
cl(Eb), 2 cl(Bb), bass cl(Bb), soprano sax(Bb), alto sax(Eb), tenor sax(Bb), bar.sax(Eb)
Berio - Canticum novissimi testamenti for 4 clarinets, saxophone quartet and 8 voices
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Luciano Berio
Berio: Canticum novissimi testamenti
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Orchestration: für 4 Klarinetten, Saxophonquartett und 8 Singstimmen
Type: Dirigierpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Language: Italienisch
Luciano Berio
Berio: Canticum novissimi testamenti for 8 voices SSAATTBB, 4 clarinets and saxophone quartet
Available digitally
Orchestration: for 8 voices, 4 clarinets and saxophone quartet
Type: Studienpartitur
Language: Italienisch
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As with a number of his other compositions (e.g. Passaggio, Aronne, Calmo), Berio was inspired by a poem by Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010). Berio was fascinated by what he saw as its “echo-chamber of memory, where aspects of the mundane, the universal, the banal and the speculative, the personal and the poetic all meld in a strict and sometimes unsparing construction.”
The result is a unique piece of music, a strange, highly original world shaped by Berio’s imagination and enriched with recollections of ancient Italian literary and musical genres, including Monteverdi’s.