• Artist-Title-Year
    (1995) Luciano Berio: POINTS ON THE CURVE TO FIND... FOLK SONGS, SEQUENZA VII, LABORINTUS II
  • Label Release No.
    Ermitage – ERM 164-2, [CD]; Aura AUR 171-2 [CD]
  • Availability

    Commercially available as a download.

  • Notes / Trivia

    Excerpt from film of world premiere performance of “Points on the Curve to Find…” performance by Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cn0X0wZO0 Anthony di Bonaventura also recorded "Points on the Curve.." on the 1977 release, "BERIO CONDUCTS BERIO" performed by the London Sinfonietta.

Credits

Carlo Piccardi, RSI production coordinator (1-13); Alberto Spano, artistic director (1-13); Friedrich Schumacher, tonmeister,(1-13); Pierre Dumont, tonmeister (14), digital remastering; Paolo Petazzi, liner notes; Mercello Mencarini, photographer; Gianmarco Diamanti, graphics; Luciano Berio, composer

Tracks

1 Points on the Curve to Find… ; Folk Songs: 2 Black is the Colour…(USA); 3 I Wonder As I Wander…(USA); 4 Loosin Yelav (Armenia); 5 Rossignolet Du Bois (Francia); 6 A La Femminisca (Siciia); 7 La Donna Ideale (Italia); 8 Ballo (Italia); 9 Motettu De Tristura (Sardegna); 10 Malurous Qu’o Uno Fenno (Francia); 11 La Fiolairé (Francia); 12 Azerbaijan Love Song (USSR); 13 Sequenza VII; 14 Laborintus II

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Country
Personnel
Anthony di Bonaventura, piano (1); Luciano Berio, conductor (1-12); Orchestra della Radio della Svizzera Italiana (1-12); Cathy Berberian, mezzo-soprano (2-12); Heinz Holliger, oboe (13); Luisa Castellani, soprano (14); Isabelle Mili, soprano (14); Magali Schwartz, soprano (14); Federico Sanguineli, speaker (14); Ensemble Contrechamps (Sergio Belluz, Maurizio Chabaud, Genevieve Coinchon, Patrick Dentan, Pierre-André Gamba, Maria Perez, Fabienne Schnorf, Elena Verrii), Ensemble (14); Giorgio Bernasconi, conductor (14).