Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 5.

This big-little piece asks for a contralto, flute (piccolo and bass flute), tuba, and a percussion sextet playing Sardinian bells, crotales and bongos, but also some complicated live electronic processing.

Utopian Listening: Reinvigorating Nono in America

Years from now, we will look back at a conference held in Boston at the end of March 2016 as the defining event that reinvigorated worldwide – American especially – interest in the work of Luigi Nono.

Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 4.

Cuckson and Burns offer the first 5.1 surround sound release of La lontananza. Given the violinist moves through space, this format makes perfect sense.

Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 3.

A fresh NEOS sparks this roundup and forces an overdue confrontation with col legno’s Prometeo.

Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi:
Necessary Nono 2.

Perhaps too eagerly I mentioned that there would be a second part in this string of Nono explorations.

Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi:
Necessary Nono 1.

I’ve postponed covering a stack of relatively recent Nono releases, music impossible to contemplate casually.