Nono / Luz / Hirsch / Ensemble United Berlin - Polionica-Monodia-Ritmica - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Collecting two 1950s-era works, one composition from the early 1960s, and a final, extended work from 1989, this CD brilliantly captures Luigi Nono's meditations on form, silence, and tone. Ensemble United Berlin's performance is aptly hushed throughout the early whispers of InchPolifonica-Monodia-Ritmica,Inch and then the group grapples with the halts and drops and lurches as if it, too, saw the precipice Nono seemed to find on every side of him. Drums drop in and vanish, reeds dust the surface. InchCanti per 13,Inch too, incites the same dialogues, with silence, multiplicity, and timbral extremity; notes are played with singular gestures, their pointillism arresting the ear. Then Angelika Luz's soprano blasts through with InchCanciones a Guiomar,Inch streaking the air with quickened leaps and then molten lines that thread themselves from mere instrumental hints. The violin piece that closes the set is amazing for it's extreme registers and rushes of grated timbres, each of which-again-comes and goes in a flash (recalling the Arditti Quartet's fascinating string quartet recording and Irvine Arditti's La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura on Auvidis Montaigne). Nothing is fluid or uninterrupted in Nono's sound world, and this a great glimpse at the history of how he composed his interruptive works over several decades. Album Tracks 1. Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica - Klaus Schopp/Christian Balcke/Bernhard Nusser/Johannes Ernst/Uwe Holjewilken/Yoriko Ikeya 2. Canti Per 13 - Klaus Schopp/Birgit Schmieder/Christian Balcke/Bernhard Nusser/Johannes Ernst/Reinhard Bastian 3. Canciones a Guiomar - Angelika Luz/United Voices/Franz Bauer/Wolfgang Eger/Volker Frischling 4. 'Hay Que Caminar' Sonando Erster Teil 5. 'Hay Que Caminar' Sonando Zweiter 6. 'Hay Que Caminar' Sonando Dritter Teil