Nostalgica

On this CD:

1. Blues, Time, Changes, for bassoon & string quartet
Composed by Charles Ruggiero


2. Nostalgica, for bassoon & string quartet, Op. 60
Composed by Miguel del Aguila


3. All the West Was Moving, for bassoon & string quartet
Composed by Daniel McCarthy


4. Sunset Song, for bassoon & piano, Op. 42 I. With swing, as in blues
Composed by Miguel del Aguila


5. Sunset Song, for bassoon & piano, Op. 42 II. Allegro
Composed by Miguel del Aguila


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Schnittke: Complete music for cello and piano
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • VERY BEAUTIFUL
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  • Great cello sonatas, but the rest is less impressive
 Schnittke: Complete music for cello and piano

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  1. Schnittke: Chamber Music
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ASIN: B00000DMGJ
Release Date: 1998-11-17

Tracks:

  1. Cello Sonata No. 1: I Largo
  2. Cello Sonata No. 1: II Presto
  3. Cello Sonata No. 1: III Largo
  4. Cello Sonata No. 2: I Senza tempo
  5. Cello Sonata No. 2: II Allegro
  6. Cello Sonata No. 2: III Largo
  7. Cello Sonata No. 2: IV Allegro
  8. Cello Sonata No. 2: V Lento
  9. Musica nostalgica
  10. Epilogue From The Ballet 'Peer Gynt'

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The combination of cello and piano has been key to Schnittke's blossoming reputation, especially given the frequency with which the Cello Sonata No. 1 gets performed. Here Irina Schnittke, the composer's widow (he died in the summer of 1998), plays with bruising key pressure, tremendous sustain, and limpid grace, from the classical tinges of the first section to the slammed clusters of the second section to the fade of the third. Schnittke had Mstislav Rostropovich in mind for Cello Sonata No. 2, with its long, slowly wavering lines and mid-to-low register range. Irina Schnittke matches Alexander Ivashkin's dense cello reflections with chromatic bursts and falling trails of off-center notes. The short Musica Nostalgica, recorded here for the first time, was dedicated to Rostropovich and is a short, bittersweet miniature. Closing the CD is the 26-minute Epilogue from the ballet Peer Gynt, which Schnittke brilliantly scored for a taped chorus, cello, and foreshadow-rich piano. Again displaying the composer's imagination to be filled with points of crashing impact, the piece operates on the hinge of elaborately built, somber power and emotive blocks of energy that throw Ivashkin's soaring cello against disembodied choral floats. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars VERY BEAUTIFUL.......2006-10-31

I have played the Schnittke Sonata No.1 myself in a recital some years ago, and therefore can say, that this recording is the most beautiful I have gone through during my preparations. It is not only the extremely beautiful sound of the cello (very well recorded too) - and of course the piano, but also the refined interpretation. By the way, I have so far never bought any "bad" CD of Mr. Ivashkin....
Go for this CD/music, it is beautiful and - I strongly believe- important to know!

5 out of 5 stars no title.......2006-07-18

This is my favorite CD. The two cello sonatas are brilliant, I will defer to the previous reviewer as he did a fine job briefly describing them. Musical nostalgica is altogether uninteresting as a composition, and not performed very well here. I'm just not a huge fan of his Suite im alten Stille, and this is adapted from it's Menuett. I will, however, disagree with the previous viewer that the Epilogue for Peer Gynt is less than impressive. I find that it illuminates the subtlety of the original composition and provides a less bombastic variation. I particularly enjoy the two "climaxes" that don't quite climax, and the end that vanishes into the barely audible choral background. This version displays a frailty and ephemeral humanity that makes this the track I listen to the most. If I am trying to expose someone else to the genius of Schnittke, then I certainly choose his second cello sonata, or his third string quartet (amongst others), but this recording of the Epilogue From The Ballet 'Peer Gynt' remains my favorite piece of music.

4 out of 5 stars Great cello sonatas, but the rest is less impressive.......2003-12-16

This disc is a logical one: the complete cello and piano music of Schnittke, with his widow playing piano and his biographer the cello. The two cello sonatas are amongst the composer's best works, and the performers' understanding of Schnittke's music makes this disc a clear first choice for them.

The First Cello Sonata is one of Schnittke's most recorded pieces. In a largely conservative musical language that may remind many listeners of Shostakovitch and Prokofiev, it lays out a very clear argument: a brief introductory opening movement followed by a ferocious scherzo and a long, elegiac finale. The performance here is quite stunningly intense, and it can be comfortably recommended over any rivals I have heard.

The Second Cello Sonata, though, may be the finer work. More modernist in atmoshpere, its five quizzical, brief movements never seeming quite to cohere, it eventually tails off into silence. Some listeners might be reminded of Webern, though Schnittke never abandons tonality in the way the Austrian composer did--nor does he have Webern's intensity of focus. This isn't easy listening, but it's a work that grows upon the listener with repeated hearings. Once again, the performance is all one could wish for.

I'm less impressed by the fillups on the disc. Musical nostalgica is fake salon music with a twist, while the Epilogue is a reduction for tape, cello and piano of the epiloge of Schnittke's symphonyically conceived ballet, Peer Gynt. Unfortunately, two things make this version less successful than the original: firstly, due to the episodic nature of the Epilogue, it really helps to have heard the rest of the ballet first (almost all the material in the Epilogue is recycling of music from the preceding acts); secondly piano and cello just can't match an orchestra for the range of colour or the weight of the (often enormous) climaxes in the work.

Despite those caveats, anyone wanting to hear either (or both) of the cello sonatas should get this disc--forty minutes of it is prime Schnittke in stunning performances.
La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (Nostalgia for a Far Away Future Utopia) for Vi
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • moribund fragments to the last century
  • the last of late Nono
  • The original and best recording of Lontanaza
 La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (Nostalgia for a Far Away Future Utopia) for Vi

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ASIN: B0000D7Z64
Release Date: 2003-11-11

Tracks:

  1. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura
  2. 'Hay Que Caminar' Sonando

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars moribund fragments to the last century.......2006-01-12

These two works are like fragments from Nono's late creativity. This beginning more or less with the piano piece with Magnetic tape dedicated to Maurizio Pollini, :sofferte onde serene:, serene waves endured.
A lifelong inhabitant of Venice, Nono on the island Giudecca where he had lived had the timbres the fragments of water,of lapping gentle violent miniature waves always as part of his consciousness.:sofferte onde serene: has this tympani like thuds, soft gentle as accompaniment to the live paino, pre-recorded materials as here this CD of the pianist or performer. This gives a kind of signature, and Nono was fond of dedications in his work(Carlo Scarpa, Andrei Takovski, Edmund Jabes, Pierre Boulez,Emilio Vedova,not to mention lost revolutionaries,activists thinkers,intellectuals) Nono's sensibility inhabits also a very private space as a creator/recluse despite his extroverted political affinities,and this late work certainly reflects a turn inward, as the end of modernity the paradigm lived worked upon, yet a renewal of it.
The antiphonal approach here in these two works is further a way of isolating the tones,as humans are isolated, where a Wall is placed around their existence, the drawn bow, in the highest positions on the violins,col legno at times, with part of the wood of the bow drawn with the hair; pencil-thin harmonics as well, tortured timbre, like fingernails being dragged on the chalkboard, an image that rings with resonance today with the mindless atrocities which continue around the globe.A plucked string, a normally drawn bow becomes, within this context, a means of escape to what the mind already knows. Nono a lifelong Marxist saw the end of the old ways or the process of creating art within the activist paradigm, although he himself never went in the direction as say Cornelius Cardew in England,editing a Marxist newspaper,holding worker meeting,organizing demonstrations.He still envisioned a music with the component of innovation without dilution of its content for the cash box.
Although he did desire to travel to the USA for concerts with much of this late music on this disk, where his Visa was turned down by Washington.
If you can refer to the beautiful as seen through the convoluted maze of the 20th Century,then these works are summoned as the last form of beauty possible,at least within the genre of music Nono had been working. He always detested the freedom of performance through graphic notation and had early diatribic essays against the Cage purposeless purpose. Even here the gifted Gidon Kremer is kept on a short leash, not allowed to travel too far away from the materials given. And he comes to be simply a mimetic form of himself with the pre-recorded materials as the earlier Pollini. No ego or hypocrisy is allowed to reveal itself in the performer's role, merely following a loose but pre-determined plan.If you have ever experienced this music live it is deeply disturbing, unless you merely esacpe to the realm of the aesthetic, then these two works are quite interesting to contemplate. All these late works have this performative freedom, or the representation of it,as the interesting array of silences in the string quartet, "Fragmente,Stille fuer Diotema" where as another reviewer said they come to accrete the tension as the piece progresses. Here as well, although here the silences are not as pronounced,nor as a functional component yet Nono allows the performer to find his/her own way through rests of indeterminate length. The Tuba and Live Electronics work :Post-Praeludium per Donau:(also written within this period after the Danube another water representation) allows the perfomer to choose paths ad libitum, to find their own way. I don't think we can comsider these works as having a constant factor for success, some may still call it "masterpiece", I don't think Nono thought of these works as such, more as fragments, offerings, as a pilgrim bringing a gift to the final destination of their travels.

4 out of 5 stars the last of late Nono.......2004-01-26

This disc is a reissue in DG's 20/201 Echo series, with recordings of Nono's last two finished works from December of 1990, first released in 1992. Nono died in May 1990, and "La lontananza" had been written for and with Gidon Kremer in 1988 and 1989. Nono taped Kremer playing a variety of pre-arranged sounds on violin, and then electronically altered them -- the final piece results from Kremer playing solo, responding to taped sequences. As 8 tapes are triggered, Kremer walks among 8 music stands and plays the scores in whatever order he chooses. The taped altered material does not provide the basis for a clearly enunciated duet, and the result, as you might imagine, is quite indeterminate -- Cage-like, if it wasn't for Nono's powerful sensibility. Interestingly, Sofia Gubaidulina operates the tapes -- this did not lead to a sideline in studio engineering work as far as I know. This is not among Nono's best works, in my opinion, but then I don't much care for Cage either -- perhaps if you do you'll find it more compelling than I. Irvine Arditti subsequently recorded "La lontananza," which probably makes it the only Kremer/Arditti duet on record, but I haven't heard his rendition.

The second work, "Hay que caminar sondando" is a violin duet performed by Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko. It conveys a sense of confusion, puzzlement, and sadness at not being able to "find the path." This piece was written for Irvine Arditti and David Alberman, who recorded the orginal version in July of 1990 (which can be found on the Naive Montaigne label with Nono's 1980 string quartet "Framente-Stille, An Diotima" -- see my review). The original version is nearly 28 minutes long, while the Kremer version lasts "only" 20 minutes. The Arditti/Alberman version has more silence, more extreme dynamics, and conveys a sense of being utterly, existentially lost. You might say it emphasizes that there is "no path," while this version emphasizes that nonetheless "we must walk." Personally, I prefer the original version to this one.

This is an excellent addition to DG's 20/21 series, which includes a growing number of classic recordings of the late 20th century avant-garde. The packaging is high quality -- relevant, of course, only if you suffer from commodity fetishism.

What Nono was exploring in his late period seems to have been the result of a crisis of faith -- not religious faith, but humanist faith. The work was experimental, and not always successful (I see "Prometeo" as a flawed masterpiece -- see my review), but always fascinating. For more on Nono, see my reviews collected in the list LUIGI NONO'S LIBERATORY SOUNDWORLD.

5 out of 5 stars The original and best recording of Lontanaza.......2003-11-16

Towards the end of his life, the marxist Italian composer Luigi Nono changed musical course from his big agitprop canvases to largely quiet, intimate explorations of sound. These two works--his last two--probably take this exploration as far as any.

In La Lontanaza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, Nono prepared eight tapes of electronically distorted violin sound, percussive noises and suchlike. These tapes--each with a distinctly different sound to them--are played back as accompaniment to the violin soloist during the performance, but with a live performer responding to the sound of the violinist by choosing which tape(s) should be heard at any one moment. This might seem cold and artificial, but in this performance, with the hyper-intense Gidon Kremer playing violin and the Tatar composer Sofia Gubaidulina preparing the tapes, the result is anything but. Sensibly, the performers do not attempt to utilise the whole of the taped material--one of the many flaws which makes Irvine Arditti's rival recording a tedious experience in comparison--but concentrate on maintaining a tension and intimacy over just under forty minutes of playing. The result is quite exceptional, and finally won me over to a work I had long denigrated as one of Nono's weakest.

"Hay que caminar", sognando, for two violins, is the other work on this disc. Once again it is a mostly quiet, intimate exploration of sound--though this time without any taped component. Related to Nono's earlier string quartet by musical material and the use of Verdi's 'scala enigmata'--a scale different going up and down, and rich in tritonal harmony, this is a rather less important work than Lontanaza, but still well worth hearing. The performance on this disc (by Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko) is much faster, clearer and more intense than the rival recording with Irvine Arditti and David Alberman, and in my opinion is greatly to be preferred.
Reminding
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    		Reminding

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    1. (I) Walk About Moscow
    2. (II) Waltz Of The Flowers
    3. (III) Duet OF Lidochka And Boris
    4. (I) Largo
    5. (II) Presto
    6. (III) Largo
    7. Musica Nostalgica (1992)
    8. With A Smile For Slava (1997)
    9. Habil Sajahy (In The Style Of Habil, 1979)
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    Matthew Barley, one of the UK's foremost cellists, spent his formative years studying in Moscow and this virtuosic disc draws together works by composers from all corners of the former Soviet empire. Barley is famed for his work with contemporary ensemble Between the Notes, and his collaborations with Russian violinist Victoria Mullova.
    Luigi Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura / "Hay que caminar" soñando - Gidon Kremer / Tatiana Gridenko
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      		Luigi Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura / "Hay que caminar" soñando - Gidon Kremer / Tatiana Gridenko
      Luigi Nono (Composer) , Gidon Kremer (Violin) , and Tatiana Gridenko (Violin)
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      ASIN: B00000E53S
      Release Date: 1993-02-16
      Nostalgica
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        		Nostalgica

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        Track Listing: 1. Merengue y sol 2. Cayman Nights 3. Los Guaranies 4. Nostalgica 5. Bandolera 6. Loca 7. Romanza 8. Havana 9. Moliendo Cafe 10. Valerie's Cumbia
        Aquatic Self
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          		Aquatic Self

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          ASIN: B000CAD3O8
          Release Date: 2004-03-30
          The Örebro Chamber Orchestra performs Agrell, Linde, Carlstedt and others
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • Track listing ERROR
          		 The Örebro Chamber Orchestra performs Agrell, Linde, Carlstedt and others

          Manufacturer: Swedish Society
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          Release Date: 1996-10-09

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          1. Sym No.3 in B 'Eroica': Allegro Con Brio - VPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          2. Sym No.3 in B 'Eroica': Marcia Funebre (Adagio Assai) - VPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          3. Sym No.3 in B 'Eroica': Scherzo (Allegro Vivace) Trio - VPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          4. Sym No.3 in B 'Eroica': Finale (Allegro Molto - Poco Andante - Presto) - VPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          5. Interview De Friedrich Scnapp Par Gert Fischer - Friedrich Schnapp/Gert Fischer

          Tracks:

          1. Con No.4 in G: Allegro Moderato - Conrad Hansen
          2. Con No.4 in G: Andante Con Moto - Conrad Hansen
          3. Con No.4 in G: Rondo, Vivace - Conrad Hansen
          4. Sym No.5 in c: Allegro Con Brio - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          5. Sym No.5 in c: Andante Con Moto - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          6. Sym No.5 in c: Allegro - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          7. Sym No.5 in c: Allegro - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler

          Tracks:

          1. Sym No.6 in F 'Pastorale': Allegro Ma Non Troppo - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          2. Sym No.6 in F 'Pastorale': Andante Molto Mosso - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          3. Sym No.6 in F 'Pastorale': Allegro - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          4. Sym No.6 in F 'Pastorale': Allegro - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          5. Sym No.6 in F 'Pastorale': Allegretto - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          6. Tristan Et Isolde: Prld Et Mort D'Isolde - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          7. Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg: Prld - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler

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          1. Sym No.9 in d 'Chorale': Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Un Poco Maestoso - Tilla Briem/Elizabeth Hongen/Peter Anders/Rudolf Watzke
          2. Sym No.9 in d 'Chorale': Molto Vivace - Presto - Molto Vivace - Tilla Briem/Elizabeth Hongen/Peter Anders/Rudolf Watzke
          3. Sym No.9 in d 'Chorale': Adagio Molto E Cantabile - Tilla Briem/Elizabeth Hongen/Peter Anders/Rudolf Watzke
          4. Sym No.9 in d 'Chorale': Allegro Assai - Alla Marcia - Andante Maestoso - Allegro Energico - Tilla Briem/Elizabeth Hongen/Peter Anders/Rudolf Watzke

          Tracks:

          1. Vars Sur Un Theme De Haydn, Op.56a - Adrian Aeschbacher
          2. Con No.2 in B flat: Allegro Non Troppo - Adrian Aeschbacher
          3. Con No.2 in B flat: Allegro Appassionato - Adrian Aeschbacher
          4. Con No.2 in B flat: Andante - Adrian Aeschbacher
          5. Con No.2 in B flat: Allegretto Grazioso - Adrian Aeschbacher

          Tracks:

          1. Sym No.4 in e: Allegro Non Troppo - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          2. Sym No.4 in e: Andante Moderato - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          3. Sym No.4 in e: Allegro Giocoso - Poco Maestoso - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          4. Allegro Energico E Appassionato - Piu Allegro - BPO/Wilhelm Furtwaengler
          5. 4 Lieder: Verfuhrung, Op.33 No.1/Waldseligkeit, Op.49 No.1/Liebeshymnus, Op.32 No.3/Winterliebe - Peter Anders

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Track listing ERROR.......2003-09-09

          This CD (NOT a 6-CD Set!!) includes the works listed on the "This CD contains" section. The track listing (for a Six-CD Set) is incorrect.

          Swedish Society - Catalog Number SCD 1034

          Recordings from 1973, 1974, 1978 and 1988 by the Orebro Chamber Orchestra conducted by Göran W. Nilson (in the Agrell, Linde, Carlstedt and Börtz works) and Lennart Hedwall (in the Lars-Erik Larsson works)
          Nostalgica
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            Release Date: 2004-10-05

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            Saffire are Australia's highest selling classical group. This 2004 album presents another breathtaking array of works from a fiery arrangement of Deep Purple's classic 'Highway Star' to 'Riverdance'. ABC Classics. 2004.
            Luigi Nono 2: La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (1988-89) - Irvine Arditti
            Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
            • Not entirely Nonoesque,the processed violin sounds like flys
            		 Luigi Nono 2: La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (1988-89) - Irvine Arditti
            Luigi Nono , Irvine Arditti , and André Richard
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            Release Date: 2000-04-26

            Tracks:

            1. Leggio I
            2. Leggio II
            3. Leggio III
            4. Leggio IV
            5. Leggio V
            6. Leggio VI

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            La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura is a piece for violin with an eight-channel tape consisting of Gidon Kremer's violin playing and noises from the studio, with some sounds left untreated and others modified electronically. The violinist and tape projectionist interact in various ways, rendering each performance unique. Here, Irvine Arditti delivers a brilliant and loving hour-long performance, incorporating all but one minute of the prerecorded tape. Though Gidon Kremer is the work's dedicatee, he uses only 39 minutes of the piece for his Deutsche Grammophon recording. If you must choose only one version, go for Arditti's Montaigne rendering. --Robert Reigle

            Customer Reviews:

            3 out of 5 stars Not entirely Nonoesque,the processed violin sounds like flys.......1999-04-08

            Nono's final creative period was like beginning again. At the Experimentalstudio-H.Strobel in Freiburg he had retreated from the concert hall for an intense engagement with sound. He became a master craftsman at live electronics, a realm few would touch. In this piece Nono worked with the remarkable violinist Gidon Kremer. Kremer had pre-recorded Nono's musical ideas, and these were soft,delicate yet ugly sounding ideas inhabiting the extreme registers of the violin,much playing at the bridge, a nasal-like sound, attacked double-stops. Nono thought of many voices for this work, "Madrigals" he called it The premise here is straight-forward, a dialogue between a live violinist,and a technician who manipulates the prerecorded materials. I found this piece within Nono's final oeurve weak and uninspired. The prerecorded material doesn't have the haunted,ethereal, otherwordly qualities as we fine quite powerfully in his other music"Guai ai gelidi mostri" for example. The violinist materials are placed on six different music stands with 8 speakers on the audiences right and left, 4 on each side. The violinist freely chooses which stand he will play from. Here Irving Arditti does all the right things, plays all the right notes, reveals his formidable extended technique, but the musical edifice doesn't amount to much. I can't help hearing (forgive me Luigi) mosquitoes and Hollywood-like processed strings.
            Nono: La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • avant-garde music, beyond atonal
            		 Nono: La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura

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            ASIN: B00004T74V
            Release Date: 2001-03-27

            Tracks:

            1. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura: Leggio I
            2. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura: Leggio II
            3. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura: Leggio III
            4. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura: Leggio IV
            5. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura: Leggio V
            6. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura: Leggio VI

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars avant-garde music, beyond atonal.......2003-04-05

            There isn't much music scored for music stands. This music features the stands dragged across the floor, & the violins yearning, & a voice sometimes...sort of stumbling. Good job, Mr Nono. This is music that wakes me up.

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