Folk Songs
YEAR OF COMPOSITION:
1964
TEXT:
Black is the colour (USA)
I wonder as I wander (USA)
Loosin yelav (Armenia)
Rossignolet du bois (France)
A la femminisca (Sicily)
La donna ideale (Italy)
Ballo (Italy)
Motettu de Tristura (Sardinia)
Malurous qu'o un fenno (Auvergne [France])
Lo fiolaire (Auvergne [France])
Azerbaijan love song (Aserbaijan)
LANGUAGE:
English, Armenian, French, Italian, Azeri
SCORED FOR:
mezzo-soprano and 7 instruments
RUNNING TIME:
23'
ANNOTATIONS:
Instrumentation: fl, cl, 2 perc, hp (or guit), 1 vla, 1 vc
Instrumentation details: flute (+picc); clarinet in Bb; 1st percussion; 2nd percussion; harp (or guitar, slightly amplified); viola; violoncello
FIRST PERFORMANCE:
1964, Oakland, CA. Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio
PUBLISHER:
Universal Edition
EDITION NUMBER:
13717
DISCOGRAPHY
- Ayre / Folk Songs
- Berio / Folksongs. Schönberg / Pierrot lunaire
- Berio To Sing
- Folk Songs
- Luciano Berio / Folk songs
- Luciano Berio / Folk songs ; Chamber music : nach James Joyce. Edison Denissow / La vie en rouge : nach Boris Vian
- Luciano Berio / Folk Songs ; Sequenza VI ; Chemins II (sobre la Sequenza VI) ; Opus number zoo
- Luciano Berio / Folk songs ; Sequenza VI ; Les mots sont allés.... Pierre Boulez / Dérive
- Luciano Berio / Recital I for Cathy ; Folk songs. Song of sexual slavery ; Le grand Lustucru ; Surabaya Johnny / Kurt Weill ; arr. Luciano Berio
- Luciano Berio / The great works for voice
- Luciano Berio’s chamber music : concert as part of "Composium 1999" featuring Luciano Berio
- Push : Michael Nicolella
- Songs Cathy sang : music composed for the voice of Cathy Berberian
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Di tanti ‘transiti’. Il dialogo interculturale nella musica di Luciano Berio
- Folk Songs de Luciano Berio: éléments de recherche sur la genèse de l’oeuvre
- Les Folks songs de Berio, entre populaire et popularité
- Les voies de la voix
- Transkription und Intermodulation: Integrative kompositorische Verfahre bei Luciano Berio und Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Vom Ausdruck der Kulturen: Luciano Berios Folk Songs. [Expression of the cultures: Luciano Berio’s Folk songs.]
- Vom Ideal der Verständlichkeit: Luciano Berio und seine “Folksongs”