Laborintus II (2012 recording)
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| Live album by Mike Patton and Ictus Ensemble | ||||
| Released | July 10, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | June 18, 2010 | |||
| Length | 32:09 | |||
| Language | Italian, English | |||
| Label | Ipecac Recordings (IPC-133) | |||
| Producer | Mike Patton, Greg Werckman, Lieven Bertels, Jean-Luc Plouvier | |||
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Laborintus II is a 2012 album by Belgian orchestra Ictus Ensemble, vocal group Nederlands Kamerkoor and American vocalist Mike Patton. It is a recording of the 1965 work of the same name by Italian composer Luciano Berio, which featured lyrics taken from fellow Italian Edoardo Sanguineti's 1956 poem Laborintus. The performance was recorded live at the 2010 Holland Festival.
Berio's composition employs elements of jazz and electronic music, and Sanguineti's libretto borrows ideas from the works of Dante Alighieri, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound as well as using his own original work. Berio named "memory, death and usury" as the work's main concerns, believing these themes to be present in Dante's work.
Released on July 10, 2012, the album debuted at number 23 on the American Billboard Classic Albums chart. It has received mixed reviews from critics, most of whom highlighted its challenging and free-form composition.
Laborintus II is a recording of the 1965 composition of the same name by Luciano Berio, who wrote it for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's birth. The libretto was provided by Edoardo Sanguineti, who included elements of his 1956 poem Laborintus in it. AllMusic's Thom Jurek described the original poem as speaking of "the timelessness of love and mourning, while acting as a critique of the commoditization of all things". In addition to Sanguineti's own poetry—itself based on themes found in Dante's Divina Commedia, Convivio and La Vita Nuova—the work uses excerpts from the Bible and the writings of poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Musically, Laborintus II incorporates elements of jazz and electronic music while sometimes evoking the style of Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi.
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