Federico Sanguineti

[俳句 393-396] dieci anni fail ventisette maggiomoriva Berio dei tanti padriegli fu il più leggeroil musicale in forma di haikuanch’io faccio sequenzaper voce sola per un istantesia mia la sua musaapro l’orecchio (Federico Sanguineti)

András Schiff

Salvatore Sciarrino

Cara Talia,da anni risuona in me Circles, che scoprii ragazzo. Tante le cose belle che ho ascoltato dopo ma,dentro, l’eco di questa musica non s’è fermata ancora.Un abbraccio,Salvatore

Stefano Scodanibbio (1957-2011)

Stuttgart 4.5.2003 …Poi ho chiamato Berio che, alla mia domanda su quanto potevo inoltrarmi nella “reinvenzione”, mi ha detto: fai quello che voi, poi la lavoriamo insieme.E mi ha anche chiesto:– Ma ti diverte?– Mi appassiona! (from a Stefano Scodanibbio’s private notebook, by Maria Teresa Bonugli Scodanibbio’s courtesy)

Peter Serkin

Below is an extract from a phone call between Luciano Berio and Peter Serkin, 1989. To listen to Peter Serkin performing Feuerklavier, please click here. [Both audio documents are from P. Serkin’s private archive, by courtesy]

Noam Sheriff

Luciano Berio is the culmination of a long and magnificent tradition in Italy which understood that the human voice lies at the very bottom of musical experience. Italian music has given the world new insight into polyphony and the life work of Luciano Berio is the very essence of this heritage independent of the various […]

Markus Stockhausen

I have good memories of Luciano Berio, but very few.After the Auditorium in Roma was inaugurated and Luciano was the President of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, he invited us in quartet with Stefano Scodannibbio (who unfortunately left us much too early!), Tara Bouman (clarinet/bass clarinet) and Fabrizio Ottaviucci (piano) in the sala 800 (now […]

Ian Strasfogel

I remember Luciano best when he was living in New York in the 1960s and a new and animating presence at the Juilliard School. He asked me to direct a double bill of Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Passaggio in New York and Cambridge and we spent many months, usually late at night, hashing things out with […]

Marco Stroppa

[Marco Stroppa, analytic scheme of Tangata manu; by courtesy]

Ward & Françoise Swingle

We were in Florence with our family in 1975 on our way to lunch, when Luciano picked up Rebecca, our youngest (4 years old at the time), put her on his shoulders and carried her to the restaurant. She was thrilled, and told everyone that a great composer, Beethoven, had carried her there! Ward and […]

Michel Tabachnik

J’ai bien connu Luciano. J’ai dirigé nombre de ses créations. Ensemble, nous avons même vagabondé en Toscane tandis qu’il cherchait une maison pour se loger. — Avec l’âge, disait-il, il me faut de la chaleur… De la chaleur, je trouvais déjà que sa musique en débordait… Il y a en ses constellations sonores une vie […]

Tempo Reale