Nostalgia for a Far Away Future Utopia - Luigi Nono: Complete Chronological Catalogue

"Luigi Nono achieved prominence after WW II as an uncompromising modernist seeking to revolutionize music in Europe. Along with fellow Italians Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna, Nono attended the influential Darmstadt Summer Courses and became associated with other young modernists such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In many ways, Nono was the most radical of them all, choosing to combine a keen political engagement with a musical orientation that mixes austere beauty with fierce intensity." - AllMusic

This playlist is compiled after the list of works on the Archivio Luigi Nono. Articles on important works can be found on AllMusic. Recommended reading: Is Luigi Nono the angriest composer who ever lived? on Telegraph; The Ghost of the Avant Garde on The Guardian, by Tim Rutherford-Johnson; and Nono's Shrug at Immortality.

Get this collection in one Spotify playlist: Luigi Nono - Complete Chronological Catalogue (78 tracks from 22 albums, total time: 9 hours). Ctrl (CMD) + G to browse in album view.

Music Of Our Time: DG's 20/21 Series On Spotify

After the mammoth Beethoven playlist, it's time for some fresh contemporary air.

Here's the official site of Deutsche Grammophon's 20/21 series.

And here's the Spotify playlist that collected all the 20/21 albums in one place: 20/21.(574 tracks, 2.1 days)

I also put in another Luigi Nono album at the end of the playlist, it's from DG's 20th Century Classics series, features the beautiful "....Sofferte onde serene....for piano and magnetic tape" played by Pollini. Below is a well made video of Berio's Sinfonia, one of the many modern masterpieces that gorgeously represented in this splendid series. It's so refreshing to see Sir Simon Rattle in a suit, not that fluffy turtleneck;)

Two more link for this wonderful piece of work. The wiki page, which lists all the works Berio quoted in the 3rd movement, and a very informative introduction in the Modern World. Welcome to post any interesting links that you found on the composers and works in this series:)