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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Luciano Berio (1925-2003)

Composer of the Week: Luciano Berio (1925-2003): Episode 2: Berio discovers the voice

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)

Episode 2

Episode 2: Berio discovers the voice

Berio discovers the voice

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Berio discovers the voice

Donald Macleod discusses with Gillian Moore the life and music of Luciano Berio.

Berio was inspired by the voice of his wife, Cathy Berberian, despite cracks in their relationship,. Donald Macleod and Gillian Moore discuss the composer's life and music.

The vocal prowess of Berio's wife Cathy Berberian was to prove a revelation to him, and a stimulus to some of his most intriguing works. Donald Macleod discusses the life and music of Luciano Berio (1925-2003) with Gillian Moore, focusing today on Berio's rich period of creativity during the 1960s. It's a time when Berio's marriage to Cathy was under increasing strain, and Luciano spent time teaching in the USA, where he met the woman who would become his second wife. 

Circles
Text by e.e.cummings
Vinko Globokar / Aurèle Nicolet, percussion
Cathy Berberian, mezzo-soprano

Folk Songs
Cathy Berberian, mezzo-soprano


Wasserklavier
David Arden, piano

Labyrintus II, Part II 
Ensemble Musique Vivante
Chorale Experimentale
Luciano Berio, director.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Five-part series on the life and works of Italian experimental composer, Luciano Berio.

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