Michael Weinius

Andris Poga

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Symphoniker Hamburg

Luciano Berio, one of the most prominent Italian composers of the twentieth century, had a very special relationship with tradition and created numerous arrangements, orchestrations and transcriptions of very different composers - from Monteverdi to Mahler and the Beatles. While he was more cautious in other arrangements, in the work that he completed in 1989 under the title "Rendering", his ability as an arranger merges almost completely with his original compositional talent. The work is based on Schubert's fragments of Symphony No. 10 in D major, D 936A, of which those of the Andante in B minor, in Berio's and others' opinion, already anticipate Mahler's music. "This restoration follows the principles of a modern restoration of frescoes, which seeks to revive the old colours without, however, covering up the damage caused by time, often leaving irreversible empty spots in the composition," emphasizes Luciano Berio.


Andris Poga – Mahler »The Song of the Earth«