Maderna & Berio: Now, And Then

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Maderna’s objective interventionism is evident in the Webern-like clarity of its interplay between highly differentiated instrumental groups…Pablo Marquez takes on [the solo role] perceptively... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: 4815034
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 62 minutes

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Frescobaldi: Tre Pezzi

Work length10:52

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

1. Recercar super LA-FA-SOL-LA-RE (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Track length4:33

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2a. Christe (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

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2b. Kyrie (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Track length0:44

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3. Bergamasca (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Track length4:43

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Legrenzi: La Basadonna (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Work length3:20

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Berio: Chemins V

Work length20:42

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Pablo Márquez (guitar)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Gabrieli, G: Canzone a tre cori (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Work length5:20

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Tommaso Lodovico da Viadana: La Napolitana (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Work length2:18

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Tommaso Lodovico da Viadana: La Venexiana (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Work length3:11

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Tommaso Lodovico da Viadana: La Veronese (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Work length2:43

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Tommaso Lodovico da Viadana: La Romana (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Work length1:52

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Tommaso Lodovico da Viadana: La Mantovana (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

Work length1:31

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Wassenaer: Palestrina-Konzert

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Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015-08-21
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

1. Grave assai sostenuto (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

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2. Andante (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

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3. Vivace (Transcription By Bruno Maderna)

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Dennis Russell Davies conducts music of two of Italy's greatest 20th century composers, close associates Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) and Luciano Berio (1925-2003), on a fascinating album which challenges definitions of old and new music.

Unlike many of his radical new music colleagues, Bruno Maderna had a great affection for older music, especially that of the Italian Renaissance and Early Baroque eras. But his transcriptions had little to do with the orthodoxy of so-called 'historically informed' interpretation. In the belief that works of art can be removed from their original contexts, he used contemporary instrumental resources to discover new meaning and a new validity in the works of old mas¬ters. His charming and evocative transcriptions and re-orchestrations of pieces by Frescobaldi, Legrenzi, Gabrieli, Viadana and Wassanaer are vividly conveyed by orchestra and conductor.

These pieces are brought together with Luciano Berio's 'Chemins V' (heard here in a premiere recording). As the composer himself noted, 'Chemins V' can also be considered a "transcription": it is a resetting, made in 1992 of Sequenza XI (1987/88), Berio's masterful work for solo guitar, now enveloped by luminous writing for chamber orchestra. Argentinean guitarist Pablo Marquez brilliantly addresses the dialogic qualities of the solo part, conceived by Berio as an idiomatic exchange between the heritage of classical guitar and flamenco tradition, unfolding within the composer's own expressive language.

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February 2018

Maderna’s objective interventionism is evident in the Webern-like clarity of its interplay between highly differentiated instrumental groups…Pablo Marquez takes on [the solo role] perceptively in this first recording – abetted by Dennis Russell Davies with his Swiss-Italian players whose playing, here as elsewhere, adds much to the attraction of this pleasurable disc.

26th November 2017

This typically studious ECM disc explores transcription, as exemplified by Maderna’s lively chamber orchestrations, predating the early-music “authenticity” vogue, of pieces by Frescobaldi, Gabrieli et al.

12th November 2017

The transcriptions of early Italian music by Bruno Maderna are in a style much favoured earlier in the 20th century, done with real taste. Dennis Russell Davies’s fine orchestra plays them with a clarity and poise that is rather untypical of their era.

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