Berio Sequenza Flute Universal Edition Sheet
Luciano Berio's biography begins like the story of many Italian (and German, and French) composers of the past: his ancestors were all musicians ever since the 18th century. He was born in a small town, Oneglia, where his grandfather and his father played the organ in a local church and also composed. Discover the language of the piano The Sequenza series is one of the most important of the 20th century. With the aim of exploring the musics limit.
“The Sequenza VIII for violin solo by Luciano Berio has been one of my favourite works ever since I got to know for a DVD production in Paris in 2004. I play the work as often as the opportunity arises.
The piece circles around the note A, which stands in a permanent conflict with its neighbour B, but always in a brave, modified, varied and sequenced sense. The note spins onwards through all states of existence over 10 large UE pages, before landing on a 10-second-long double stopped A–B: ten seconds of A–B which are eternity. But the dissonance and resistance have lost their monstrosity by then, and the A–B combination sounds almost like resolution and closure. The initially impenetrable fundamental problem transforms itself over 10 minutes of performance (and life) into its own resolution. Great art.” Carolin Widmann.
Berio Sequenza Flute Universal Edition Sheet Music
This is a restless piece of music; chords change constantly, tremolo-like passages flash. The dynamics range from ppp to fff, either abruptly or achieved via crescendi or decrescendi, ranging from dolce to sffz (always to be played “as loudly as possible”), while the tempi (40, 50, 60, 72, 104) vary, as pauses (which can be very long) interrupt the pitches; some of the latter are played with the fingers, and others with the palm of the hand. The pedal has an important part, producing, in Berio’s words, “veiled harmonic sequences.” From our online shop.