Recital I (for Cathy)
YEAR OF COMPOSITION:
1972
LANGUAGE:
Italian or English
TEXT SOURCES:
Spoken text: Luciano Berio (with references to Andrea Mosetti, Edoardo Sanguineti)
SCORED FOR:
mezzo-soprano and 17 instruments
DEDICATION:
Cathy Berberian
RUNNING TIME:
35'
ANNOTATIONS:
Instrumentation: 1 1 2 0 – 0 1 1 0 – perc, 3 pno, e.org, alto sax, bass tpt, str
(English text translated by Cathy Berberian)
FIRST PERFORMANCE:
27/05/1972, Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Grande Auditório. Cathy Berberian, Orquesta Gulbenkian, dir. Luciano Berio (world prèmiere). 13/09/1972, Venice, 35. Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea, Teatro di Palazzo Grassi. Cathy Berberian, London Sinfonietta, dir. Luciano Berio (Italian prèmiere).
PUBLISHER:
Universal Edition
EDITION NUMBER:
34399