Luciano Berio
„Eindrücke“ für Orchester

Gustav Mahler
Sinfonie Nr. 6 a-Moll

“The Sixth is his most personal and also most prophetic work”, wrote Alma, the composer’s wife. Mahler himself mentioned that this music contained an enigma for his audiences. This is music combining intense emotions, irony and echoes of folk music fused into an explosive frenzy which at times appears to gain an intermittent enhanced clarity. In “Eindrücke” by Luciano Berio, the musical worlds of marches and melodies hover within space like distant memories with a dreamlike quality. Berio would have been celebrating his 100th birthday this year; in this orchestral work from 1973, he reflects on two previously composed works which significantly also have German titles: “Bewegung” and “Still”. Luciano Berio succeeds in distributing musical events across a variety of imaginary spatial tonal levels in “Eindrücke”. The large-scale orchestral forces including piano and electric organ are subdivided into individual internal ensembles whose spatial distribution can be audibly differentiated.