Berio Coro [CD de audio] Kölner Rundfunk, Berio, Berio and Luciano Berio

When the composer Luciano Berio returned to Italy from a long stay in the United States, he wrote his most important and best-known work: 'Chorus'. The avant-garde of composers had left behind the turbulent era of search for style after the war, in the metropolises of new music, such as Paris, Vienna, Darmstadt, composers such as Boulez, Kagel, Nono and Stockhausen settled and developed their new sound worlds of modernity. Luciano Berio processed musical influences from the Indians, Polynesia, Croatia, Iran and Italy into a kind of political-avant-garde music, with a text by Pablo Neruda as a base, in particular the phrase 'Come and look at the blood in the street ' is presented as a manifesto for the work. 'Coro' was created in 1973 under the impression of the military intervention in Chile and the assassination of President Allende, which brought Pinochet to power. The work is composed for 40 singers and 44 instrumentalists and has an enormous psychological presence for the listener. Few contemporary music is capable of fascinating as much as 'Coro'.