Berio: Rendering; Sonata Op 120 No 1; Six Early Songs – review

Williams/Collins/Bergen PO/Gardner(Chandos)Luciano Berio's relationship with the music of the past was complex and productive. His best-known work is arguably the third movement from his 1969 Sinfonia, which grafts a collage of literary and musical quotations on to the framework of the scherzo from Mahler's Second Symphony, while his arrangements spanned four centuries, from Monteverdi to Kurt Weill. Edward Gardner's disc includes two of the more straightforward transcriptions: Sonata Op 120 No ...

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