Luciano Berio Documentary: Voyage to Cythera

By talking about the Sinfonia, his tribute to Gustav Mahler, Luciano Berio takes us on a journey through the history of music.
"For me, Mahler is a ship plying the ocean, a ship filled with fine things, magnificent people and gifts", says Luciano Berio. It's a sort of voyage to Cythera. I decided to go on an harmonic journey marked with references to more or less famous musical elements.
With Luciano Berio (1925-2003) we penetrate the inner process of composition: by dissecting for us the third movement of his "Sinfonia", he takes us on multiple musical paths, since this piece is first of all a tribute to Gustav Mahler. The framework of this third movement is the scherzo of the "Second Symphony" by Mahler, from which emerge many references to other composers, including Stravinsky Schoenberg, Berg, Ravel, Brahms, Bach and Beethoven...
Interspersed with interviews with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly and Riccardo Muti who shed light for us on Mahler, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Berio, the film also shows the Italian composer working on his Sinfonia with the Concertgebouw orchestra. Bon voyage!
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[@williamlenihan7536]

Brilliant documentary illuminating so many points of Berio’s work but also of great music overall.

[@milesahead69]

Thank you for sharing.

[@chuckholton1]

I love that Scheffer makes a stream of consciousness documentary as a commentary on a piece of music that is a stream of consciousness commentary on another piece of music. He really gets it!

[@nicolassimion6967]

wow, this is a great thing, music & musicians ! thank you for sharing.

[@sung-ajoychang9863]

Great piece-very inspiring!

[@nigelhaywood9753]

It goes double-dutch at 23.40! The automatically generated English subtitles don't help but they're fun.

[@meredrums1]

Thanks for posting this.

[@pitoncini]

EXTRAORDINAIRE!!

[@rofanolubis]

Awesome ! Great share !

[@kevinedmonds6628]

This 3rd movement is really the classical music piece that answers the post serialism question after it ran out of gas in the the early 60's. To me, the last great piece of classical music ever composed, nothing composed since can touch it.

[@paolonatalini4184]

great upload

[@carlospacini7765]

He is a genius!

[@sajateacher]

Wow, I feel inadequate in my own knowledge of music history... but great documentary.

[@sajateacher]

+Ryan Blais - Hey... that's Boulez and Stockhausen... sneaky...

[@nigelhaywood9753]

I feel inadequate in my knowledge of Dutch!

[@seantom5513]

I'm not sure what the licensing situation is for this, but regardless it would be nice to see some credit given to the director, Frank Scheffer

[@giovannismartini479]

What is the piece about 26:00 ?

[@tommyron]

It's the ending of the 3rd Movement of Mahler's Symphony No 2.

[@Nexaes]

As another saying...Dat documentary man..

[@jeffreykalb9752]

This should be re-titled "The Rape of Mahler."

[@KrisKringle14]

Well, the recompositions of Berio are a classic of contemporary music, meanwhile. That fact will not be changed by your obviously biased opinion. My advice: Simply listen to the original of Mahler (which is absolutely great in itself), but let others like me rejoice in the genius of Berio and his outstanding re-interpretations...