Sinfonieorchester Basel - Luciano Berio - Transformation (2019) [Hi-Res]

"I borrow quotes from the museum of the past and mix them with my own music." Hardly any other musician of the 20th century exploited the relationship between tradition and modernity as creatively as Luciano Berio, who died in Rome in 2003. The Italian composer and conductor began his search for traces with Monteverdi and Bach. From Schubert, Brahms and Mahler to Puccini and the Beatles, his way of transforming quotations and collage techniques found its way to his very own forms of the "open work of art". On this album the Sinfonieorchester Basel under Ivor Bolton presents together with the soprano Sophia Burgos, the baritone Benjamin Appl and the clarinettist Daniel Ottensamer a selection of Berio's transcriptions for orchestra

The recordings include Berio's arrangements of Bach's unfinished Contrapunctus XIX, Manuel de Fallas' cycle "Siete Canciones Populares Españolas" composed in 1914, Luigi Boccherini's "La Ritirata Notturna di Madrid", Gustav Mahler's Frühen Liedern and Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Sonata op. 120 No. 1
On a second CD, the orchestra brings the first recording of Berio's arrangements of the three Beatles songs: Michelle, Ticket to Ride and Yesterday. Michelle arranged Berio twice - once for two flutes and harpsichord as well as for woodwinds and strings. The first version, like Ticket to Ride and Yesterday, refers to the sound world of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with a wink. Michelle's second version contrasts the baroque concerto with the more opulent timbres of a Fauré or Ravel.

Sinfonieorchester Basel, Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), Sophia Burgos (soprano)

Ivor Bolton