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What a Composer's Mind Sounds Like At the End of A Long Day.

This is the 3rd movement of Luciano Berio's brilliant work, Sinfonia. The entire piece is amazing, particularly the 2nd movement 'O King'. Unfortunately, the entire piece is not available online.


From Youtube: 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, Berio incorporates 20th century musical quotations from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Debussy's La Mer, Ravel, Schoenberg, Berg and even himself.

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