Composer: Luciano Berio
Performer: The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir
Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Conductor: Grete Pedersen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2020
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Coro
01. No. 1, Today Is Mine… Wake Up, Woman, Rise Up, Woman
02. No. 2, Venid a ver
03. No. 3, Your Eyes Are Red
04. No. 4, Venid a ver
05. No. 5, Your Eyes Are Red
06. No. 6, Venid a ver la sangre por las calles
07. No. 7, Wake Up, Woman, Rise Up, Woman
08. No. 8, Venid a ver la sangre por las calles
09. No. 9, I Have Made a Song
10. No. 10, Venid a ver la sangre por las calles
11. No. 11, I Have Made a Song
12. No. 12, Venid a ver la sangre
13. No. 13, Wake Up, Woman, Rise Up, Qoman
14. No. 14, Venid a ver la sangre
15. No. 15, Komm in meine Nähe
16. No. 16, Today Is Mine
17. No. 17, Pousse l’herbe et fleurit la fleur
18. No. 18, Go, My Strong Charm… Venid a ver
19. No. 19, It Is So Nice
20. No. 20, Your Eyes Are Red… El día pálido se asoma
21. No. 21, Mirad mi casa muerta
22. No. 22, Je m’en vais où ma pensée s’en va
23. No. 23, Pousse l’herbe et fleurit la fleur
24. No. 24, Oh issa… Ich sehe Tautropfen… Your Eyes Are Red
25. No. 25, Oh issa lo in alto… Komm in meine Nähe
26. No. 26, Come Ascend the Ladder
27. No. 27, When We Came to This World
28. No. 28, El día oscila rodeado
30. No. 29, Hinach yafà raayatí
30. No. 30, El día pálido se asoma
31. No. 31, Spin, Colours, Spin… El día pálido se asoma
Cries of London
32. No. 1, These Are the Cries of London Town
33. No. 2, Where Are Ye Fair Maids That Have Need of Our Trades
34. No. 3, Garlic, Good Garlic
35. No. 4, These Are the Cries of London Town
36. No. 5, These Are the Cries of London Town
37. No. 6, Money, Penny Come to Me
38. No. 7, Cry of Cries, Come Money to Me
Gramophone MagazineJune 2020
Two features stand out: first, its tendency to put a revealing slant on Berio’s particular form of expressionism by keeping it allof-a-piece – a single canvas; second, its prioritising of the composer’s interest in merging instruments and voices to the point where on occasion neither is identifiable as one or the other…Pedersen achieves both through judicious matching of individual voices to each other and to instruments.
[Coro] t’s a mighty tour de force, particularly with Surround sound, but it doesn’t bluster. Cries Of London is far from lightweight, but it comes as a gentle anticlimax to the main piece and many listeners might prefer to take them separately. Berio has been somewhat in eclipse of late. This triumphantly reasserts his importance.