Sound & Silence: Four Pioneering Modernist Italian Composers - 3CD Box Set

Sound & Silence places Ennio Morricone's early film music beside post-war works by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna and Luigi Nono, tracing a shared language of melody, dissonance, electronics, amplified voices and carefully shaped silence.

This 3CD box set opens with three Morricone soundtracks, moves through Berio's Sinfonia and electronic studio work, and closes with Maderna and Nono performances drawn from recordings of the 1950s and 1960s.

DISC ONE
1. Agosto jazz
2. Caporal Twist
3. Nuvole
4. Sole e sogni
5. Desiderio di te
6. Francesca
7. Un povero matusa
8. Miraggio africano
9. I nuovi giovani
10. Nuvole (Scat version)
11. Caporal Twist No. 2
12. Ritorno a casa
13. Nicole (Instrumental version)
14. Cha cha cha delle diciottenni
15. Cos'e un bacio
16. Nicole (Vocal version)
17. Swingin' ischia
18. Diciottenni in piscina
19. Evelyn
20. Franca
21. Arrivano le ragazze
22. Nicole e Nicola
23. Una vivace commedia American
24. Marcetta disinvolta
25. Atmosfera giallo rosa
26. Lello
27. Nicole (Harpsichord version)
28. Night romantic
29. Titoli
30. Combattimento
31. Tema di Bonafé
32. Colloquio
33. Arcovazzi e Bonafé in viaggio
34. Ritrovamento
35. Desiderio di Matilde
36. Fuga di Bonafé
37. Pullman in avaria
38. Inseguimento
39. Campo minato
40. Bonafe' al convento
41. La fine del viaggio
42. Finale

DISC TWO
1. Sinfonia for Orchestra and Eight Amplified Voices (Original Version in Four Movements): Section I
2. Sinfonia for Orchestra and Eight Amplified Voices (Original Version in Four Movements): Section II (O King)
3. Sinfonia for Orchestra and Eight Amplified Voices (Original Version in Four Movements): Section III (With quietly flowing movement)
4. Sinfonia for Orchestra and Eight Amplified Voices (Original Version in Four Movements): Section IV
5. Sequenza No. 1 for Flute Solo
6. Différences for Flute, Clarinet, Viola, Cello, Harp and Magnetic Tape
7. Gesti for Recorder Solo
8. Ritratto di Città (Portrait of the City: Study for a Radio Play) (1954)

DISC THREE
1. Serenata No. 2 for Eleven Instruments
2. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales: Modéré
3. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales: Assez Lent
4. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales: Modéré
5. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales: Assez Animé
6. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales: Presque Lent
7. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales: Assez Vif
8. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales: Moins Vif
9. Valses Nobles et Sentimentales: Epilogue: Lent
10. Notturno for Magnetic Tape
11. Omaggio a Emilio Vedova for Magnetic Tape
12. Il Canto Sospeso: Orchestra
13. Il Canto Sospeso: Coro a cappella
14. Il Canto Sospeso: Soprano, Contralto, Tenore e Orchestra
15. Il Canto Sospeso: Orchestra
16. Il Canto Sospeso: Tenore e Orchestra
17. Il Canto Sospeso: Coro e Orchestra
18. Il Canto Sospeso: Soprano, Coro Femminile e Orchestra
19. Il Canto Sospeso: Orchestra
20. Il Canto Sospeso: Coro e timpani
21. Cori di Didone for Mixed Chorus and Percussion