Berio: Complete Piano Works

Featuring

Matteo Bevilacqua
Luca Trabucco
Luciano Berio

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Compositional Technique

Berio's Petite Suite, written when he was 22, uses Baroque dance structures but with a modern musical vocabulary, suggesting a reinterpretation of earlier composers like Prokofiev and Bach.

Composer Biography

Luciano Berio, the composer, maintained a constant relationship with the piano throughout his life, from early chamber music to his final completed works.

Performer Biography

Luca Trabucco, the second pianist on this album, is an international point of reference for the works of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

Performer Biography

Matteo Bevilacqua, one of the pianists on this album, has explored multidisciplinary performances, including a recital where his brain activity was captured by an EEG neuronal headset and transformed into real-time visual art.

Composition History

Berio's Piano Sonata, one of his last works, was commissioned by the Zurich Festival and arose from an earlier, brief work called Interlinea, written for Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday.

Compositional Technique

Berio's Sequenza IV for piano, part of a series of virtuosic solo works, uniquely incorporates a sense of improvisation and uses the piano's third pedal to create an extra melodic layer.

Compositional Technique

The Six Encores by Berio include a series of pieces titled after the four elements: Wasserklavier ('Water Piano'), Erdenklavier ('Earth Piano'), Luftklavier ('Air Piano'), and Feuerklavier ('Fire Piano').