Luigi Nono: Como una ola; Epitaffio No. 1; Epitaffio No. 3

On this CD:

1. Como una ola de fuerza y luz, for soprano, piano, orchestra & tape
Composed by Luigi Nono
Performed by Ursula Reinhardt-Kiss
Conducted by Herbert Kegel

2. Epitaffio per Federico Garcia Lorca No. 1 "España en el corazón", for soprano, baritone, reciting chorus & instruments
Composed by Luigi Nono
Performed by Werner Haseleu, Werner Haseleu, Roswitha Trexler, Roswitha Trexler
Conducted by Horst Neumann

3. Epitaffio No 3, Memento "Romance de la Guardia Civil española," for female speaker, mixed speaking chorus & instrumental ensemble
Composed by Luigi Nono
Performed by Werner Haseleu, Werner Haseleu, Roswitha Trexler, Roswitha Trexler
Conducted by Horst Neumann

Luigi Nono: Como una ola; Epitaffio No. 1; Epitaffio No. 3, Music, Werner Haseleu, Luigi Nono, Herbert Kegel, Horst Neumann, Leipzig Radio Symphony Chorus, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Giuseppe LaLicata, Roswitha Trexler, Ursula Reinhardt-Kiss, Choral, Classical, Music for Tape/Electronics and Live Performer(s), Secular Music for More One Soloist, Chorus and Instr, Secular Music for Soloists, Chorus and Instruments
Luigi Nono: Como una ola; Epitaffio No. 1; Epitaffio No. 3
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Reconsidering Nono
  • like a wave of strength and light!
  • Disc shows transition between Nono's early and late styles.
  • Great music by a throughly neglected composer
 Luigi Nono: Como una ola; Epitaffio No. 1; Epitaffio No. 3

Manufacturer: Berlin Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000035Q8
Release Date: 1994-09-20

Tracks:

  1. Like A Wave Of Strength And Light - Ursula Reinhardt-Kiss/Guisoppe La Licata
  2. Epitaffio No.1 'Spain In The Heart': I. Evening
  3. Epitaffio No.1 'Spain In The Heart': II. War
  4. Epitaffio No.1 'Spain In The Heart': III. Qasida Of The Rose
  5. Epitaffio No.3 'Memento': Ballad Of The Spanish Civil Guard

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Reconsidering Nono.......2002-07-30

I have of course known of Luigi Nono for most of my life. His music was discussed in every book on twentieth century music to be written since the 60's. And yet I'm ashamed to say that I had never heard anything by Nono until I bought this CD recently. I didn't know what I'd been missing. Nono is far from a dessicated total serialist. Rather his music is passionate and revolutionary. And perhaps even a bit spiritual...though probably it's a Marxist spirituality.

como una ola de fuerza y luz is the monumental work on this disc. Scored for orchestra, tape and soprano soloist, the work is a sonic tour de force. It was written to morn the death of Luciano Cruz, a Chilean revolutionary whom Nono had befriended. The sonic world of the piece is based on recurrent low clusters in the orchestra, and a musique concrete tape based on distorted piano and human voices. The work is tragic and haunting.

The other works on this CD are from the 1950's, when Nono was first making his reputation. They are settings of Neruda and Lorca and meant as an epitaph to Lorca, murdered by Franco's followers during the Spainish Civil War. The works are uncompromising, and yet there is a profound lyricism in the music. This becomes most evident at the end of the Third Epitaffio as the music becomes a straightforward tonal version of a Spanish Civil War anthemn. The effect is very moving.

Performances are exemplary on this CD. Ursula Reinhardt-Kiss sings the monumentally difficult lines of como with real precision. And Roswitha Trexler and Werner Haseleu do a wonderful job on the equally difficult lines of the Epitaffio.

This CD has whetted my appetite for more music of this wonderful composer. He is vastly underrated.

5 out of 5 stars like a wave of strength and light!.......2001-07-12

"como una ola de fuerza y luz" was written in 1971/1972 to commemorate the Chilean revolutionary, Luciano Cruz, of the MIR (Revolutionary Leftist Movement). This 30-minute piece, recorded in 1976 in Leipzig, is for soprano, piano and orchestra, accompanied by a tape recording of transformed piano sounds and human voices. The electronics are therefore simple, but powerfully effective, used at the end to evoke the continuing presence of the revolutionary spirit, and the utopian prospect. As noted, "como una ola" marked a transition toward Nono's more contemplative late (1980s) style. The two shorter works included here (written in 1952/3, recorded in 1977) are less innovative musically, but form a thematic whole, as they commemorate the (losing) democratic forces of the Spanish Civil War (set to verse from Garcia-Lorca and Neruda). From the dictators Franco and Pinochet, to such current anti-democratic forces as the World Trade Organization, the struggle continues...

4 out of 5 stars Disc shows transition between Nono's early and late styles........1998-12-22

Memento (Epitafio No.3) is a good example of Nono's early style, based on Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra, with shouting chorus and a political text. Como una etc., composed in 1972, is rooted in this kind of music but also shows the transition into late Nono, full of erie, static sound, a sort of white on white effect. Dedicated to Luciano Cruz, a Chilean revolutionary and martyr, the work's title means "Like a wave of strength and light." Nono's musical interpretation of strength here consists in rumbling percussion and a piano smoldering away in its lower registers, while light becomes the electronically produced "space music" which the more violent music periodically gives way to, as if to a vision of another, more spiritual realm. Como una ola de fuerza y luz is certainly one of Nono's most powerful works, and may be one of the masterpieces of the century.

5 out of 5 stars Great music by a throughly neglected composer.......1998-12-21

Frank Zappa once said that one of his band members wanted to turn your teen aged ears around. He must have had music like this in mind. Luigi Nono's music thoroughly engages the ear and mind in ways that the rock modernist could only hope for. His setting of texts by Lorca and Neruda are stunning and the performances on this disc are a revelation. Even in the short and simple third movement of the Epitafio #1 the poem and its setting create an entire world that would take Borges fifteen pages to suggest.

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