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Title: Not very serious.
Review: Once you die, your compositions can be used to say what you have not said when you were alive. It's not serious to record and sell a piece that Nono had not premiered during his life. The publisher has not the right to make money with "Da un diario italiano", composed in 1963/1964, 26 years before Nono's death. The performances are not marvelous. And the booklet is full of missprints: "Scabia Giuliano" instead of "Giuliano Scabia", "fianto" instead of "flauto", "Archivi Luigi Kani" instead of "Archivio Luigi Nono", and so on. The cover says that the pieces are sang by the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart under Rupert Huber, but omits the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, that, according to the third page of the booklet, is the performer of two out of three tracks. Coherently, the booklet does not mention who conducts these pieces or who plays the percussion, but informs us about who has prepared the WDR choir.
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