Luciano Berio - Gesti (1966) (with score)

Berio composed Gesti for treble recorder for the Dutch flautist Frans Brüggen. The work has had an enormous influence on the modern history of the recorder. The playing technique is deconstructed: air, fingers, tongue, even the performer's voice, then the various musical gestures, are notated independently of each other, in a sort of extreme polyphony for solo instrument.
Played by Lucia Mense.

[@michaelwilliams8781]

That is a stunning performance. I haven’t heard this for nearly 50 years and had forgotten how good it is and, like all the Sequenza, amazingly difficult to execute at this level of technical brilliance.

[@johnwade7430]

Amazing piece - the notation is very similar to Sequenza III

[@SaintDeus]

Cool

[@PFRANZOI]

Yesterday night, in Milano, I got the chance of listening to a superb live e
Interpretation of this piece. From the garden just outside the church, S. Bernardino alle Monache, the birds could be heard participating to the concert. The seemingly british quartet of wooden flutes was actually very cool, in a very humid and hot night of this beginning of summer. The rest of concert's program was all based on reinassance pieces, for example a certain Agricola. It was quite an experience, also seeing Elisa scribbling funny short sentences on the concert brochure to capture the images she felt during the execution of this Berio's piece, which she soon wanted to point out clearly to me how deeply she disliked it. Yea, ok, Elisa, you may have disliked it, but it also deeply moved you inside. Clearly Luciano Berio, our milanese cocitizen, made his point with this 1966 composition, when you were not born yet and I had just started my 'whatever-it-is-it's-all-I-got-and-feel-like-I-must-make-a-good-use-of-it'. With love.

[@ahoimeboy6063]

awesomeness 😎 👏

[@simonkawasaki4229]

Thank you for uploading this influential piece of modern music.

[@willkeithkellogg1934]

Gamer music

[@lorenzocassani8169]

Where is the music?

[@thomasramsay8212]

You forgot to unpause the video, I'm afraid.

[@johnwade7430]

You are looking at it - Top line = high notes of the instr.- thsi is graphic notation

[@johnwade7430]

Normal notation starts from the 4 min mark