Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio dedicated his Sequenza VII, which was composed in 1969, to the oboist Heinz Holliger. The version of this piece published here was arranged for one soprano saxophone by Claude Delangle i...

6 first steps to new piano music - In order to become familiar with a composers works, its best to consider his compositions chronologically. On the one hand this helps to recognize fundamental struct...

Eingeleitet und kontrapunktiert mit einem Cluster auf money weichen die Stimmen von den Akkorden ab und verfolgen ihre eigene melodische Linie in einer Vielfalt von Klangfarben vom nasalen Laut bis zu...

This love song with words in Sicilian dialect was composed in 2002 by Luciano Berio - one year before his death. It is dedicated to the author and philosopher Umberto Eco.

Berio wrote Sequenza III for a virtuoso singing actress - such as Cathy Berberian, his wife and the work's dedicatee. Singing is only one of the many expressive modes the human voice has, and Berio ma...

The present arrangement of these 6 duets for two guitars was approved and slightly supplemented by the composer. Each duet is titled with a name: The first names of persons to whom Berio feels attache...

Mit seinen Kompositionen Sequenza I-X hat Luciano Berio virtuose Solostücke für die verschiedensten Instrumente komponiert und dabei die klanglichen und technischen Raffinessen des jeweiligen Instrume...

Berio could have called 'Gesti' a 'Sequenza'; the approach is the same. The work calls for (almost literally) breathtaking virtuosity - fingers, tongue and respiration must be skilfully coordinated. T...

The Sequenza series is regarded as one of the most important cycles of the 20th century. In this series Berio discovers the capabilities of an instrument and its player by making high technical demand...

This set of arrangements of Luciano Berio's 'Duetti', originally for two violins, represents a fascinating expansion of the limited repertoire for two violas. Berio originally conceived these duets as...

In der Sequenza Reihe nutzt Berio die ganze Bandbreite eines Instruments und seines Spielers, indem er hohe technische Anforderungen stellt und somit jedem Instrument seine eigene musikalische Sprache...

Die zwischen 1958 und 2002 entstandene Sequenza Serie enthält 14 Titel und gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Zyklen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dabei entdeckt Berio die Möglichkeiten eines Instruments und sei...

The piece begins rather hesitantly, as if the music were preparing again and again to play a melody, only to remain stuck on a single pitch, held for 10, then 8, then 6 seconds. But the music does slo...

Lied (Song) seems just like its title, as if the music could be sung. Unlike in his Sequenze, Berio is not concerned with virtuosity here; his aim is to convey the atmosphere of more mournful, introsp...