Marina & Stefano Berio [L. Berio, lettere manoscritte n.d. (ca. 1973), archivio privato di Marina Berio, per gentile concessione]
Talia Pecker Berio [L. Berio, lettera manoscritta del 1 ottobre 1976. Archivio privato di Talia Pecker Berio, per gentile concessione] L. Berio, Coro, XXIXKölner Radio Symphonie-Orchester, Kölner Rundfunkchor, cond. Luciano Berio – Deutsche Grammophon 2002 (Recording: Köln, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Konzertsaal Wallrafplatz, Oct 1979)
Alessandro Berio I never thought of my grandfather as a mystical or religious person, although his music always seemed divinely inspired to me. I remember sitting with him one morning at Il Colombaio, his Radicondoli home overlooking the Tuscan hills. I was a curious teenager, fascinated by his larger-than-life personality. He was reading a newspaper, smoking a […]
Lucas Berio Fortini I would like to share my favorite place to visit in Oneglia – the church where Luciano started his musical career playing the organ. What I think is particularly impressive about this place is that this is the same instrument where my great grandfather and my great great grandfather also played during different phases of […]
Selene Berio Fortini I know my grandfather loved the sea, and he loved Lingueglietta too, a little village on theRiviera he ‘discovered’… I had the opportunity to go there a few years ago with my mom.She told me that many many years ago, my grandfather was spending some time with his parents in Oneglia, but their home was […]
Ory Bernstein When we talked, as friends, and Luciano was a very close friend, he always kept listening to the music echoing in his head, to some still unborn music. Now that he is dead, and I miss him greatly, that imagined music remains eternally, still waiting to be heard. Ory Bernstein
Maurizio Bettini Dice Berio: «la musica è tutto quello che ascoltiamo con l’intenzione di ascoltare musica, e che tutto può diventare musica». Si tratta di un’idea liberatoria. Se la si medita per quanto merita, infatti, la musica cessa di essere una sorta di idea platonica a cui tutti, compositori esecutori ascoltatori sono obbligati ad adeguarsi faticosamente, non […]
William Bolcom I remember Luciano and me being together at Spoleto in 2001 for what would be the last time, when he had invited me to be on the jury of a contest. At the end of the few days there he sat down next to me, grabbed my knee, and deeply apologized for his not having […]
Hervé Boutry Luciano a beaucoup compté pour moi.Je suis autodidacte en musique, administrateur d’institution musicale par passion.A travers l’oeuvre de Luciano, cette passion s’est étendue naturellement à la création contemporaine: sa musique porte à l’expérience du beau, ce rare moment de paix où nous aimons la vie et la nature, mais nourrie d’une conscience aigüe du “partage”, […]
Dorothea Brinkmann When it was clear that Luciano was appointed to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair and that he would be honorary professor for one year at the Harvard Music Department, it was a great joy for Reinhold Brinkmann, my husband. Berio was one of his preferred contemporary composers, and the two of them had a wonderful […]
