Deryk Barker wrote: >Jim Saunders ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > >>Your posting inspired me to try him out. Our county library had nothing >>(!) so I took the plunge and bought a CD of chamber music ... Anyone >>have comments on this disc? (Serenata I, Sequenza IV & IXa, Linea, O King) > >No, but I do know that he incorporated O King as the second movement of his >Sinfonia. That and Laborintus II are probably my favourite works by Berio. Try also "Circles" if you can find it--old piece [late 50's?] and utterly enchanting. I'll never forget him performing it on tour with Cathy Berberian in the early 1960s... I've conducted "O King" in the chamber version--profoundly moving. Joel Lazar