Circles / Frammento / Aria With Fontana Mix

by Luciano Berio & Cathy Berberian

Circles / Frammento / Aria With Fontana Mix cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1961
  • Label: Time
  • Country: Italy
  • Length: 38:10
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A cornerstone of the 20th-century avant-garde, this recording features the unparalleled vocal acrobatics of Cathy Berberian navigating Luciano Berio's highly demanding scores. The music integrates extreme phonetic experimentation, indeterminate structures, and John Cage's 'Fontana Mix' tape manipulations to shatter conventional boundaries of classical composition.

Genres

Descriptors: soundtrack, dissonant, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Circles
  2. Frammento
  3. Aria With Fontana Mix

Credits

  • Various - primary artist
  • Onna White - choreography [choreographed by]
  • Igo Kantor - edited by [film music editor]
  • George Sidney - film director [directed by]
  • Lee Adams - lyrics by
  • Charles Strouse - music by
  • Michael Stewart - other [book by]
  • L. Slade Brown - other [in association with]

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