Luigi Nono. Ha venido, canciones para Silvia.

Erwin Ortner, direction Petra Hoffmann, soprano colorature Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Written for his daughter Silvia’s first birthday in 1960, “Ha venido“, of approximately 6 1/2 minute duration, is scored for solo soprano and a chorus of six sopranos. Composed in a thorough-going serialist style, the piece is nevertheless handled in a lighthanded style. The text by Antonio Machado is distributed in the form of a “puzzle song“ among the voices: broken up into phonemic sounds and brief ph