Luigi Nono

Italian composer in the 12-tone or atonal style, whose work encompasses many forms, including opera and electronic music. Many fundamental works by Nono are out of print -- "y su sangre ya viene cantando (And Even Your Blood Comes Singing)," for flute, strings, and percussion, from Epitaffio per Garcia Lorca ("Epitaph for Garcia Lorca," RCA Victrola VICS 1313, 1968); the choral settings of texts by Cesare Pavese; and the operas Intolleranze ("Intolerance," 1960, which attacks segregation, the bomb, and Nazism); Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore ("To the Great Sun Charged with Love,"...