Varied, Colorful Elements, United in Performance
“it was touching in its use of the female voice, with the flutist (Ms. Chase) and the violist (Wendy Richman) adding vocalise as they played. Whether or not this was intended, it called to mind Berio’s wife, the singer Cathy Berberian, whose lively voice and personality inspired perhaps the greatest of his “Sequenzas” — No. III, for female voice — funny, sexy and altogether captivating.”
James R. Oestreich