Feuerklavier Peter Serkin performing Feuerklavier. Home recording, 1989. [P. Serkin’s private archive, by courtesy]
Omaggio: interview with Luciano Berio Audio excerpts from the video interview Omaggio conducted by Gillian Moore and Shân MacLennan for the festival «Omaggio: A Celebration of Luciano Berio» dedicated to the composer in April 2004 by the Soutnbank Centre of London (with kind permission). [We apologize for the poor quality of the audio. The whole soundtrack of the interview, with an improved […]
Homage to Bruno Maderna (1920-2020) Berio with Bruno Maderna, Hilversum, Holland, Dutch Radio studio, June 27, 1972. Photo taken during the rehearsal for the concert featuring Berio’s Différences, Maderna’s Grande Aulodia and Schönberg’s Die Jakobsleiter. Photo © Gisela Bauknecht [Sammlung Bruno Maderna, Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel]. For more images click here.
Homage to Sanguineti «I have always loved Edoardo Sanguineti, in the true sense of the term […]. I love him because he is awkward […] He’s awkward because he maintains a granitic faith with his own world view – vast, ancient and modern, paradoxical, ironic and realistic. […] I love him because his poetry is not poetical, it […]
Cronaca del Luogo Fifteen years ago Cronaca del Luogo had its world première at the Felsenreitschule of the Salzburg Festival. What follows is a selection of related documents: texts by Luciano Berio, Talia Pecker Berio and Paul Griffiths; excerpts from a radio interview to the authors; a small gallery of photos from the rehearsals of Cronaca del Luogo in July 1999; and […]
Luciano Berio on Recital for Cathy 1. Letter by Luciano Berio to Cathy Berberian (undated, ca 1972; Cristina Berio’s private archive).2. Interview with John Amis, BBC Radio 3; London, UK première of Recital for Cathy, Roundhouse, March 26, 1973 (audio track at the bottom of the page).
Luciano Berio, E si fussi pisci For our homage to Luciano Berio on the eighth anniversary of his death, we have selected some new photographs and four unpublished manuscripts related to his favorite Sicilian song, E si fussi pisci. To listen to Berio singing it, accompanying himself on the piano, click here. For more photos click here. For other versions of E si fussi pisci click here.
Lepi Yuro Lepi Juro (as it is commonly transcribed), a pearl of Croatian folklore, was one of Luciano Berio’s best loved songs. It was sung by Sandra Mantovani in performances of Questo vuol dire che…In Berio’s archives, there exist numerous versions with different harmonic settings. The manuscript reproduced here is a sketch for a version for viola, intended for […]
