Berio: Concerto II/Schubert: Rendering/Boccherini: Quattro Versioni Originali Della Ritirata Notturna Di Madrid [Import]

Luciano Berio (Composer), Andrea Lucchesini (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Andrea Lucchesini
• Composer: Luciano Berio
• Audio CD (March 9, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: RCA Victor Europe
• ASIN: B000003GAZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,895 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Concerto II (Echoing Curves)

2. Rendering: Allegro

3. Rendering: Andante

4. Rendering: Allegro

5. Quattro versioni originali della Ritirata notturna di Madrid

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly... I could never play this if I got to 130 years old, July 6, 2000

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Mark Grindell "Mark Grindell" (Shipley,West Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Berio: Concerto II/Schubert: Rendering/Boccherini: Quattro Versioni Originali Della Ritirata Notturna Di Madrid (Audio CD)

The main piece here is an extension of Points On The Curve to Find, written in the early 70's. You would not think that LB has not mellowed at all. This is a bit like the fifth movement of sinfonia, suddenly hitting you from God knows where when you thought it was safe to get out there and swim.

The piano player has got to be either an android or a bebop player on steriods.... The piano part starts off without any recognisable faces from the original piece, which is rather uncharacteristic of Berios Chemins extension pieces, but settles out into something like Wasserclavier meets the Werewolf.

I love this stuff - if you could just keep up the finger work, you would kill to be be able to play like this. I wish the piece went on a bit longer. It has segements of brilliant coherence, with the more puzzling bits coming towards the beginnning and the end.

Damn....

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Schubert lovers, don't miss this one, October 28, 1998

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This review is from: Berio: Concerto II/Schubert: Rendering/Boccherini: Quattro Versioni Originali Della Ritirata Notturna Di Madrid (Audio CD)

If you love Schubert, get this CD. Schubert was working on a 10th symphony when he died, and in Rendering, Berio does a superb job of taking those fragments and turning it into a wonderfully satisfying work. The liner stresses this isn't a completion of the symphony, and that's true -- gaps in the music are filled with a soft web of abstract sounds. But emotionally, it feels like a complete symphony: something that combines the energy of the 9th with the darkness of the 8th, ending up very much in an upbeat, major key mood. The melodies are as strong as any Schubert work -- they'll stay with you forever.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Berio: Concerto II/Schubert:Rendering/Boccherini..., January 6, 2008

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L. A. Rohrbaugh (New Middletown, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Berio: Concerto II/Schubert: Rendering/Boccherini: Quattro Versioni Originali Della Ritirata Notturna Di Madrid (Audio CD)

Great purchase! Wonderful mix of pieces to enjoy, spend a relaxing evening listening to the first piece which was written by Berio. It puts me in mind of a movie soundtrack and is one of the most accessible modern pieces I have heard. The second piece is composed by Schubert who is always a favorite. Berio's spin on this piece is innovative and very well done. The third is a piece originally by Luigi Boccherini, a Italian who wrote for the Spanish court. Berio adds a steady drumbeat to the background and blends the music almost into a medley of the original. It is a very catchy tune that you will find yourself whistling to, if you can whistle.