Book Review
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kenjariBerio
by David Osmond-Smith
This slim book concentrates on Luciano Berio's music and his composition methods, with only fleeting attention paid to biographical details. I would have liked more information about Berio's professional and personal relationship with Cathy Berberian, however, since she was such an important inspiration and interpreter of his vocal works. Berio is a composer whose works I usually approach with trepidation, only to find that I really like them, so Osmond-Smith's explanations of what is going on in these works was really illuminating. Berio used abstract and sometimes complex yet highly flexible systems and structures in his works and the author is mostly successful in explaining the basics of them.
by David Osmond-Smith
This slim book concentrates on Luciano Berio's music and his composition methods, with only fleeting attention paid to biographical details. I would have liked more information about Berio's professional and personal relationship with Cathy Berberian, however, since she was such an important inspiration and interpreter of his vocal works. Berio is a composer whose works I usually approach with trepidation, only to find that I really like them, so Osmond-Smith's explanations of what is going on in these works was really illuminating. Berio used abstract and sometimes complex yet highly flexible systems and structures in his works and the author is mostly successful in explaining the basics of them.
