Berio 34 Duetti per due violini

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Luciano Berio - Duetti for two violins (1979-1983) • 00:00 1. BELA (Bartók) November 10, 1979, Radicondoli • 00:46 2. SHLOMIT (Almog) November 10, 1979, Radicondoli • 01:24 3. YOSSI (Pecker) November 10, 1979, Radicondoli • 02:42 4. RODION (Schedrin) November 14, 1979, Stockholm • 03:44 5. MAJA (Pliseckaja) November 15, 1979, Stockholm • 04:36 6. BRUNO (Maderna) November 15, 1979, Stockholm • 06:02 7. CAMILLA (Adami) December 7, 1979, Paris • 06:44 8. PEPPINO (Di Giugno) December 7, 1979, Paris • 08:19 9. MARCELLO (Panni) December 13, 1979, Radicondoli • 09:22 10. GIORGIO FEDERICO (Ghedini) December 13, 1979, Radicondoli • 10:33 11. VALERIO (Adami) December 18, 1979, Radicondoli • 11:15 12. DANIELA (Rabinovich) December 18, 1979, Radicondoli • 12:06 13. JEANNE (Panni) April 27, 1980, Paris • 13:05 14. PIERRE (Boulez) April 28, 1980, Paris • 13:57 15. TATJANA (Globokar) April 28, 1980, Paris • 14:44 16. RIVI (Pecker) May 29, 1980, Radicondoli • 15:42 17. LEONARDO (Pinzauti) May 29, 1980, Radicondoli • 17:10 18. PIERO (Farulli) June 8, 1980, Tel Aviv • 18:50 19. ANNIE (Neuburger) November 10, 1980, Radicondoli • 19:32 20. EDOARDO (Sanguineti) June 27, 1981, Radicondoli • 24:12 21. FIAMMA (Nicolodi) June 28, 1981, Radicondoli • 25:14 22. VINKO (Globokar) June 28, 1981, Radicondoli • 25:41 23. FRANCO (Gulli) June 29, 1981, Radicondoli • 26:36 24. ALDO (Bennici) June 29, 1981, Radicondoli • 27:47 25. CARLO (Chiarappa) June 30, 1981, Radicondoli • 28:32 26. HENRI (Pousseur) June 30, 1981, Radicondoli • 29:23 27. ALFREDO (Fiorenzani) August 12, 1981, Radicondoli • 30:17 28. IGOR (Stravinsky) August 12, 1981, Radicondoli • 30:59 29. ALFRED (Schlee) November 3, 1981, Florence • 32:06 30. MASSIMO (Mila) March 27, 1982, Radicondoli • 34:10 31. MAURICIO (Kagel) March 27, 1982, Radicondoli • 35:11 32. MAURICE (Fleuret) May 2, 1982, Tel Aviv • 36:22 33. LORIN (Maazel) March 5, 1983, Radicondoli • 38:22 34. LELE (D’Amico) March 8, 1983, Rome • It can happen that a violinist friend tells a composer, one night, that, other than those of Bartók, there are not enough violin duets today. And it can happen that the composer immediately sets himself to writing duets that night until dawn… and then more duets in moments of leisure, in different cities and hotels, between rehearsals, travelling, thinking of somebody, when looking for a present... This is what happened to me and I am grateful to that nocturnal violinist whose name is given to one of these Duetti. • Thus behind every duet there are personal reasons and situations: with BRUNO (Maderna), for instance, there is the memory of “functional” music which we often composed together in the fifties; MAJA (Pliseckaja) is the transformation of a Russian song, whereas ALDO (Bennici) is a real Sicilian song; PIERRE (Boulez) was written for a farewell evening: it develops from a small cell of his ...Explosante fixe...; GIORGIO FEDERICO (Ghedini) is in memory of my years at the Conservatory in Milan. And so on... These Duetti are for me what the vers de circonstance were for Mallarmé: that is, they are not necessarily based on deep musical motivations, but rather connected by the fragile thread of daily occasions. Nevertheless, in these duets there is also a pedagogical objective. Very often, as can be heard, one of the two parts is easier and focuses on specific technical problems, on different expressive characters and even on violin stereotypes, so that a young violinist can contribute, at times, even to a relatively complex musical situation from a very simple angle - the playing of a D major scale, for instance. • I would like to write a kaleidoscope made up of about a hundred of Duetti. Every group of thirty-three will be commented upon by a “concert” duet, developing in an ampler perspective the different circumstances of this private folklore of mine. • Luciano Berio

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