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''Laborintus II'' is a 2012 album by Belgian orchestra Ictus Ensemble, vocal group Nederlands Kamerkoor and American vocalist Mike Patton. It is a recording of the 1965 work of the same name by Italian composer Luciano Berio, which featured lyrics taken from fellow Italian Edoardo Sanguineti's 1956 poem ''Laborintus''. The performance was recorded live at the 2010 Holland Festival. Berio's composition employs elements of jazz and electronic music, and Sanguineti's libretto borrows ideas from the works of Dante Alighieri, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound as well as using his own original work. Berio named "memory, death and usury" as the work's main concerns, believing these themes to be present in Dante's work.〔 Released on July 10, 2012, the album debuted at number 23 on the American ''Billboard'' Classic Albums chart. It has received mixed reviews from critics, most of whom highlighted its challenging and free-form composition. ==Production== ''Laborintus II'' is a recording the 1965 composition of the same name by Luciano Berio, who wrote it for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's birth.〔 The libretto was provided by Edoardo Sanguineti,〔 who included elements of his 1956 poem ''Laborintus'' in it. AllMusic's Thom Jurek described the original poem as speaking of "the timelessness of love and mourning, while acting as a critique of the commoditization of all things". In addition to Sanguineti's own poetry—itself based on themes found in Dante's ''Divina Commedia'', ''Convivio'' and ''La Vita Nuova''—the work uses excerpts from the Bible and the writings of poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Musically, ''Laborintus II'' incorporates elements of jazz and electronic music while sometimes evoking the style of Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. Berio described the main structure of ''Laborintus II'' as a "catalogue, in its medieval meaning" (exemplified by the ''Etymologies'' of Isodore of Seville), using Dante's themes of "memory, death and usury".〔 Members of the Dutch choir Nederlands Kamerkoor, which performed in the recording, have also cited usury as a key theme in the work, describing the composition as "an indictment against the practice". Of the form, Berio wrote: "Individual words and sentences are sometimes to be regarded as autonomous entities, and sometimes to be perceived as part of the sound structure as a whole." The instrumentation of ''Laborintus II'' was written as an "extension" of the vocal material; its electronic section is likewise an extension of the instrumental music.〔 Berio used car tyres and a blow-up doll on stage in a performance of the work at the Holland Festival in 1973. The album was recorded live at the Holland Festival on June 18, 2010, in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. The work was performed by Mike Patton and the Belgian Ictus Ensemble conducted by Georges-Elie Octors. Solos were performed by Ictus Ensemble clarinetist Dirk Descheemaeker, trumpeter Loïc Dumoulin, trombonist Michel Massot, double bass player Géry Cambier, and percussionists Michael Weilacher and Gerrit Nulens. Nederlands Kamerkoor provided the choral accompaniments. The album marks only the third recording of the composition to have been released since it was first broadcast on French radio by Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française. Patton has said of the work, "I can listen to Berio and Nono as easily as I can to Morricone but like all modern music of Italy, it is unfortunately marginalized ... Maybe because of the language barrier, maybe because it’s not easily understood. Berio, who was teaching in California when he wrote this piece, was listening to jazz, pop and folk music and incorporated all of it in his works without prejudice."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laborintus II (2012 recording)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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