Berio: Coro & Cries of London / Pedersen, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Soloists Choir

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Release Date
March 6, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BERIO, LUCIANO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Norwegian Soloists? Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Pedersen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 06, 2020
    • UPC
      7318599923918
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2391
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Today is mine - Wake up woman rise up woman

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    2. No. 2. Venid a ver

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    3. No. 3. Your eyes are red

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    4. No. 4. Venid a ver

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    5. No. 5. Your eyes are red - Stand up

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    6. No. 6. Venid a ver la sangre por las calles

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    7. No. 7. Wake up, woman, rise up, woman

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    8. No. 8. Venid a ver la sangre por las calles

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    9. No. 9. I have made a song

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    10. No. 10. Venid a ver la sangre por las calles

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    11. No. 11. I have made a song

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    12. No. 12. Venid a ver la sangre

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    13. No. 13. Wake up, woman, rise up, woman

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    14. No. 14. Venid a ver la sangre

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    15. No. 15. Komm in meine Nähe

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    16. No. 16. Today is mine

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    17. No. 17. Pousse l'herbe e fleurit la fleur

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    18. No. 18. Go my strong charm - Venid a ver

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    19. No. 19. It is so nice

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    20. No. 20. Your eyes are red - El día pálido se asoma

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    21. No. 21. Mirad mi casa muerta

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    22. No. 22. Je m'en vais où ma pensée s'en va

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    23. No. 23. Pousse l'herbe et fleurit la fleur

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    24. No. 24. Oh issa - Ich sehe Tautropfen - Your eyes are red

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    25. No. 25. Oh issa lo in alto - Komm in meine Nähe

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    26. No. 26. Come ascend the ladder

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    27. No. 27. When we came to this world

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    28. No. 28. El día oscila rodeado

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    29. No. 29. Hinach yafà raayatí

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    30. No. 30. El día pálido se asoma

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    31. No. 31. Spin, colours, spin - El día pálido se asoma

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    32. No. 1. These are the cries of London town

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    33. No. 2. Where are ye fair maids that have need of our trades

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    34. No. 3. Garlic, good garlic

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    35. No. 4. These are the cries of London town

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    36. No. 5. These are the cries of London town

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    37. No. 6. Money, penny come to me

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen

    38. No. 7. Cry of Cries: Come money to me

      Composer: Luciano Berio

      Ensemble: The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

      Conductor: Grete Pedersen


Luciano Berio’s Coro has been described as the work that ‘exemplifies all the qualities that made him one of the leading composers of our time’. The work’s full title is ‘Coro for voices and instruments’, and the 40 voices and 44 instrumentalists do indeed make up a single choir – instrumentalists and singers sit together, with each singer paired with a particular player, and used both as soloists and combined in mass effects. Composed in 1976, Coro is also a strikingly ‘global’ work: Berio’s use of texts (mainly translations of folk poetry) attributed to peoples – ‘Peruvian’, ‘Croatian’, ‘Sioux’ – turns the work into a chorus of cultures. The texts are laid out in 31 separate sections of varying length, but the overall effect is cumulative, not episodic. The only named author is the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who became a powerful posthumous voice following his death in 1973 in the wake of General Pinochet’s military coup. Along with other text fragments, his words ‘Come and see the blood in the streets’ keep returning during the course of the work, and the sense emerges of human individuals needing to be alerted to social and political developments demanding a collective response. Under its artistic director Grete Pedersen the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir has made acclaimed recordings of music ranging from Norwegian folk songs and Hildegard of Bingen to Bach, Brahms and Xenakis. Joined by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra it now takes on one of the major choral works of the past 50 years. The album closes with Berio’s smaller scale Cries of London, performed by members of the choir.

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REVIEW:

Luciano Berio is quite rightly viewed as one of the most interesting and adventurous composers of his time. More so than many of his works from the 1960s, Coro struck me as being closer in style and spirit to some of the work of György Ligeti, particularly Ligeti at his best. It is the massed choral sound — and the astonishingly brash, almost metallic sound of the instrumental ensemble — that strikes one the most and stays in the mind. Needless to say, this is exactly the sort of work for which Bis’s SACD sonics are ideal.

– Art Music Lounge (Lynn René Bayley)