Berio, L :: Opus Number Zoo: Children's play for wind quintet
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ComposerBerio, L
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InstrumentationWoodwind Quintet
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PublisherUniversal Edition [UE31262]
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Orchestrationfl, ob, cl, hn, bsn
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Includes CD or Audio DownloadNo
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ClassificationNot Applicable
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GenreUndefined
Opus Number Zoo: Children's play for wind quintet
Berio, L
Opus Number Zoo is a charming, disquieting early work of Berio's, quite unlike what the world has come to know from the composer. Far from the radical polystylism of the Sinfonia, this little score for wind quintet and multiple narrators from 1951 is fanciful, somewhat like the composer's Petite Suite for solo piano. It still bites, however, and to this degree is still full of Berio's peculiarly elliptical brand of confrontation.
The wind writing is staunchly 'neo-Classical,' with its characteristically angular rhythms, transparent textures, and emotional coolness. Its four movements to texts by Rhoda Levine makes the work come across like miniature version of Stravinsky's neo-Classical pillar, the musico-theatrical The Soldier's Tale. Both Stravinsky's and Berio's work have a similar fusion of whimsy and wicked tutorial in how to stay out of trouble; these little numbers, so shiny on the surface, have a real nasty little undercurrent.
- Seth Brodsky
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ComposerBerio, L
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InstrumentationWoodwind Quintet
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PublisherUniversal Edition [UE31262]
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Orchestrationfl, ob, cl, hn, bsn
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Includes CD or Audio DownloadNo
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ClassificationNot Applicable
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GenreUndefined
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