As a counterpoint to the Mahler 2nd uploaded, here are the same forces in the early 80s peforming the famous 3rd mvmt of Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia. This movement is a parody of the Scherzo of Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony, in the composer’s words, creating “the image of that of a river running through a constantly changing landscape, disappearing from time to time underground, only to emerge later totally transformed.” Under a collage of spoken and sung text fragments by Samuel Beckett …
November 4th, 2009 at 23:53
This music is worthless to anybody who doesn’t already know the Ravel well. That includes me
November 7th, 2009 at 23:52
HAHA!! It totally reminds me of Splash Mountain!!!!
November 9th, 2009 at 5:45
Wow. Read the description. I am THAT brilliant.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:03
Mahler 2! The 3rd movement!!!
November 13th, 2009 at 11:58
yeah, Zie Flauzentrampen snogs it off in there as well, do I smell a dumpster?
Bart Simpson: Eat my Shorts out,
Love the piece, love live BERIO!!!!! A true masterpiece
November 15th, 2009 at 21:33
stupendo ed illuminante!
November 16th, 2009 at 9:36
Gesti? I heard Franz Bruggen play this in 1966 at an international recorder camp in Saratoga Springs NY. I was enthralled by it. It’s also here on Youtube.
November 20th, 2009 at 21:01
Friend suggested this one…they know I like complex puzzles. I adore this …It requires all of your sensibilities and yet its not taxing. Thoroughly engrossing.
November 21st, 2009 at 23:57
This reminds me of the multiple sounds you hear on a Disney ride.
November 24th, 2009 at 4:34
Symphony No. 2 – 3rd Mvt.
November 27th, 2009 at 0:04
5;07 is wonderful. good to know who its by. but which Mahler work is it
November 30th, 2009 at 11:42
I like this
November 30th, 2009 at 14:06
quite amazing. after listening a recorder piece by berio that i hated. then i listen this and is truly amazing piece… rather good. might have to change my idea of berio. a bit too busy piece… but still very interesting…
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:49
grande Luciano!!!!… un profeta!
December 5th, 2009 at 22:07
I’ve studied this piece since my sophomore year in college (1994). I still find things in it I haven’t before. Berio RIP…
December 7th, 2009 at 0:18
It’s very strange this movement (a kind of collage of many not adiabatic and not atonal great works) is the most famous and appreciated Berio’s composition.
Adiabatic music is based on a huge misunderstanding…
December 8th, 2009 at 15:40
The vocal part from 2:48-2:54 gets me every time…
I love this piece. And not just this movement, the whole thing. “O King” is an amazing section, as well.
December 12th, 2009 at 3:16
The trumpet bit at 5:07 is almost more beautiful than the Mahler original. Perhaps because it emerges from such chaos.
December 13th, 2009 at 14:47
You know what this piece makes me think of actually? Charles Ives! He was so far ahead of his time…
December 14th, 2009 at 11:27
Oh, you got me wrong. What I meant was that I have heard Strauss’s Elektra and Burlesque and I was wondering if there’s any of those pieces in here.
I have Rosenkavalier, but I have’s had time to listen to it yet.
December 15th, 2009 at 4:00
05:43 Rosenkavalier’s vals (then melting into Ravel’s La Valse)
I do not think there is Elektra or Burlesque in this score. Can you let us know when?
December 18th, 2009 at 12:19
Wow, Rattle did this really well. He had CBSO sounding like major international orchestra.
December 19th, 2009 at 12:41
this is a fantastic work.. this movement, particularly, is a wonderful commentary on the classical canon, the weight of what we call “masterpieces” and how they shape our tastes… and the video is absolutely necessary, since it referes to the multiple, rizomatic nature of remembrance..