Aura; Biogramma; Quadrivium

by Bruno Maderna & Giuseppe Sinopoli

Aura; Biogramma; Quadrivium cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Country: Italy
  • Length: 1:06:48
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released posthumously for composer Bruno Maderna, this acclaimed recording features conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli leading the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra through three complex orchestral works. The pieces highlight Maderna's lyrical and relatively flexible approach to serialism and the avant-garde. The album serves as a definitive interpretation of the Italian composer's mature structural language.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, atonal, dissonant, complex, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Quadrivium: I. [Quarter] = 66ca. (7:18)
  2. Quadrivium: II. [Quarter] = 60ca. (4:09)
  3. Quadrivium: III. [Quarter] = 100ca. (1:23)
  4. Quadrivium: IV. Lento [Quarter] = 48-52ca. (5:12)
  5. Quadrivium: V. [Quarter] = 72-80ca. (2:36)
  6. Quadrivium: VI. [Quarter] = 92-100ca. (2:33)
  7. Quadrivium: VII. [Quarter] = 126-132ca. (1:51)
  8. Quadrivium: VIII. [End] (11:24)
  9. Aura: I. [Quarter] = 72ca. (3:50)
  10. Aura: II. [Eighth] = 126-132 (1:05)
  11. Aura: III. [Quarter] = 120ca. (2:16)
  12. Aura: IV. [Quarter] = 66ca. (3:37)
  13. Aura: V. [Quarter] 120ca. (0:23)
  14. Aura: VI. [Quarter] = 84 (2:43)
  15. Aura: VII. Tempo generale da [Quarter] = 42 a [Quarter] = 84 – Tempo generale [Quarter] = 66-72 (2:22)
  16. Biogramma: Section A: 1. [Quarter] = 52 (1:15)
  17. Biogramma: Section A: 2. [Quarter] = 60ca. (3:09)
  18. Biogramma: Section B: 1. [Quarter] = 42ca. (4:20)
  19. Biogramma: Section B: 2. [Quarter] = 60ca. (1:52)
  20. Biogramma: Section C (3:19)

Credits

  • Bruno Maderna - primary artist, composed by
  • Giuseppe Sinopoli - primary artist, conductor

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