Laborintus II (album)

Laborintus II
The album cover featuring an abstract design
Album cover
Live album by
Mike Patton, Ictus Ensemble and Nederlands Kamerkoor
ReleasedJuly 10, 2012
RecordedJune 18, 2010
Length32:09
LanguageItalian, English[1]
LabelIpecac Recordings (IPC-133)
ProducerMike Patton, Greg Werckman, Lieven Bertels, Jean-Luc Plouvier
Mike Patton chronology
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
(2011) 		Laborintus II
(2012) 		The Place Beyond the Pines
(2013)

Laborintus II is an album by the Belgian orchestra Ictus Ensemble, the vocal group Nederlands Kamerkoor, and the American vocalist Mike Patton, which was recorded live at the 2010 Holland Festival. It was released on July 10, 2012, by Ipecac Recordings, and debuted at number 23 on the American Billboard Classical Albums Chart. It was not well received by critics.

The album is a recording of the 1965 work of the same name by Italian composer Luciano Berio, whose composition employs elements of jazz and electronic music. The libretto by Edoardo Sanguineti borrows ideas from the works of Dante Alighieri, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and his own 1956 poem "Laborintus". Berio named "memory, death and usury"[2] as the work's main concerns, believing these themes to be present in Dante's work.

  1. ^ Album notes, pp. 12–21.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference berio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).