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5 May 2024, Barbican, London
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成人快手 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Barbican Season 2023-24 Total Immersion: Italian Radicals Voyage to Cythera

成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Total Immersion: Italian Radicals Voyage to Cythera
11:00 Sun 5 May 2024 Cinema 1
A screening of Frank Scheffer's documentary in which Luciano Berio discusses the creative process behind his masterpiece, Sinfonia.
A screening of Frank Scheffer's documentary in which Luciano Berio discusses the creative process behind his masterpiece, Sinfonia.

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"For me, Mahler is a ship plying the ocean, a ship filled with fine things, magnificent people and gifts" said Luciano Berio, describing the central movement of his Sinfonia (1968): in this 1999 documentary he discusses the creative process behind a defining modern masterpiece.
Dir. Frank Scheffer, 1999.

Tickets on general sale from 29 September.

After World War Two, Italian composers confronted hard choices, and discovered boundless opportunities. A new generation found its own voice, and as the era of La dolce vita gave way to the radical 1960s and 1970s anything seemed possible in Italian music. Today we dive into a time of revolutionary politics and sonic experiments; of multicoloured modernism, and musical history unpicked, interrogated and made anew. Total Immersion in the worlds of Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna and Luigi Dallapiccola: four composers who redefined a nation.