discography

Nel labirinto della voce  –  Purcell, Armenian Songs, Offenbach, Satie, Villa-Lobos, Stravinsky, Weill, Walton, Berberian, Berio, The Beatles [Ermitage, Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana/rete 2, 1993]

The Unforgettable Cathy Berberian  –  Purcell, Armenian Songs, Offenbach, Satie, Villa- Lobos, Stravinsky, Weill, Walton, Berberian, Berio, The Beatles [adapted from Ermitage, Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana/rete 2, 1993].  Classic Options – CO 3505

The Many Voices of Cathy  –  Monteverdi, Debussy, Cage, Bussotti, Weill, The Beatles, Gershwin, Berberian.  Bruno Canino (piano)

À la recherche de la musique perdue (recital)  –   Hahn, Saint-Saëns, Offenbach, Delibes, Cook, Rossini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, Chopin, Purcell, etc.  [Radio Nacional de España, RTVE, 1974]

Revolution  –  12 Beatles Songs [Fontana MGF, LP]

Beatles Arias  –  12 Beatles Songs [Fontana, LP / the same as Revolution, different cover]

Beatles Arias  –  12 Beatles  Songs [Telescopic 2004, CD / in addition to Cathy’s interview  Why I sing The Beatles , with three songs recorded live]

Cathy Berberian at the Edinburgh Festival  –   Á la Recherche de la Musique Perdue, or From The Sublime to The Ridiculous; Bruno Canino (piano), RCA, LP

Salonmusik der Gründerzeit  –  Cathy Berberian, Bruno Canino (piano), Karlheinz Zöller (flute), Wolfgang Boettcher (violoncello), 1976, EMI, 2 LPs

Cathy Berberian’s Second Hand Songs  –  Harold Lester (piano), recorded live, 1980, Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt, LP

Homage to Cathy Berberian  –  Pieces by W.Walton, C.Monteverdi, C.Debussy, I.Stravinsky, J.Cage, G.Gershwin, H.Purcell [Accord, Musidisc, 1997]

Songs Cathy sang  –  (Cage, Berio, Pousseur, Berberian) a hommage to Cathy Berberian performed by Linda Hirst,  London Sinfonietta, conducted by Diego Masson, Virgin Classics, 1988

LUCIANO BERIO

Chamber Music – Juilliard Ensemble, dir. Berio, London, 1969, Philips

Thema – Omaggio a Joyce

  • Acousmatrix 7, BV Haast Records CD 9109
  • Many More Voices, RCA 683202-2 (restored version)

Allez Hop ! 

  • Orchestra degli Incontri Musicali, conducted by Bruno Maderna, Philips P 08509 L (it) – LP
  • Juillard Ensemble, Philips, 4266622

Circles – F. Pierre (harp), J.P. Drouet and J. C. Casadesus (percussion), 1967- Wergo – WER 6021-2

Visage

  • Acousmatrix 7, BV Haast Records CD 9109
  • Ricordi CRMCD 1017
  • Many More Voices, RCA 683202-2 (restored version)

Epifanie

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Berio, Red Seal, RCA, LP
  • Orchestra di Roma della RAI, conducted by Berio

Sequenza III

  • Stradivarius 10017
  • Wergo – WER 6021-2
  • London,1969, Philips, LP

 Recital I for Cathy  –  London Sinfonietta, conducted by Berio, London,1972, BMG Classics

Folk songs

  • Juilliard Ensemble, conducted by Berio, New York, 1968, BMG Classics, LP
  • Orchestra Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, conducted by Berio,  Stradivarius 10017
  • Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana/Rete 2, le 3.6.1976, orchestra della Radio della Svizzera Italiana, conducted by Berio / Ermitage- ERM 164-2

Round with voice  –  Le Clavecin Moderne d’Antoinette Vischer , Wergo. 60028-LP

3 Songs by Kurt Weill  –  Juilliard Ensemble, conducted by Berio, New York, 1968, BMG Classics

SYLVANO BUSSOTTI

O, Atti Vocalifrom La Passion selon Sade  –  Wergo 6004-50

Frammento  –  Time TLP 58003, LP

Unfortunately there are no recordings of Passion Selon Sade interpreted by Cathy Berberian.  To discover the work: The Passion Selon Sade, extracts of concerts (1979), with Elise Ross, conducted by Marcello Panni, BMG

JOHN CAGE

Aria with Fontana Mix – Time TLP 58003, LP

ROMAN HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI

Credentials or Think, Think Lucky

  • Wergo 60049, LP
  •  75 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage (1921-1996)  – vol.2, Col Legno, 1996

BRUNO MADERNA

 Invenzione su una voce  –  Acousmatrix 7 – BV Haast Records CD 9109

Dimensioni II (Invenzione su una voce) –  Musica Elettronica -Stradivarius, 1994- STR 33349

Pantomima da Hyperion  –  La Nuova Musica, vol.2, Stradivarius-STR 10009

 CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

Orfeo  –  L.Kosma,  R.Hansmann, C.Berberian (la messaggera), M.Van Egmond, K.Equiluz, N.Simkowsky. Capella antiqua de Munich, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Teldec, 1969

L’Incoronazione di Poppea  –  H.Donath, E.Söderström, C.Berberian, K.Equiluz, P.Esswood, Ph.Langridge. Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Teldec, 1974

Cathy Berberian sings Monteverdi  –  Lettera amorosa ;  Con che soavità  ; Lamento d’Arianna ; arias from Orfeo and the Incoronazione di Poppea  [Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Recorded 1969, 1974 and 1975. [Teldec]

HENRY PURCELL

The Fairy Queen, suite   –   Orchestra dell’Angelicum di Milano, conducted by Bruno Maderna, Angelicum LPA 970 – LP

 HENRI POUSSEUR

Phonèmes pour Cathy  -  Stradivarius

Jeu de miroirs de Votre Faust  –  M.Mercenier, B.Retchitzka, L.Dvos, J.Bastin, M.Butor, dir.H.Pousseur; Wergo, Time TLP, LP

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Elegy for J.F.K. 

  • conducted by Stravinsky,  75 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage (1921-1996)  – vol.5, Col Legno, 1996
  • conducted by Boulez, Cathy Berberian and members of the Orchestra Filarmonica Romana, Rome, 4.3.1965

Berceuses du chat, Pribaoutki , Trois Petites Chansons, Three Songs from W.Shakespeare, Elegy for J.F.K. , dir. Igor Stravinsky

  • CBS, LP
  • I.Stravinsky, vol.8, Sony Classical

Three Songs from W.Shakespeare  –  conducted by Igor Stravinsky, Ed. The recorded Legacy, Sony Classics, 46290

Tilim-bom  –  conducted by Robert Craft, In rehearsal / Stravinsky remembers, CBS, LP

WILLIAM WALTON

Façade and Façade 2  –  Robert Tear, tenor, conducted by Stewart Bedford, Phonodisc, LP

Chansons arméniennes  –  The Music of Komitas, 1970, 2 LPs

Written in memory of Cathy Berberian 

Luciano Berio  –  Requies per orchestra da camera (with Voci and Corale) London Sinfonietta, conducted by Berio, RCA

Sylvano Bussotti  –  In memoriam (spoken word, instruments), based on a poem by S.Bussotti, Nympheo (BMG, Ricordi, 1992)

John Cage  –  Nowth Upon Nacht (In memoriam Cathy Berberian), Anna Clementi (voice), S.Schleiermacher (piano), MDG.

 

 

List compiled by Marie Christine Vila (Courtesy of Librairie Arthème Fayard)