Luciano Berio: Fa-SI for organ (with Registration Assistents)

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
FA-SI for organ (with Registration Assistents)
Pier Damiano Peretti plays the Hradetzky-Organ (1968) of the St. Ursula Church, Vienna
Assistents: Julia Rüf, Marina Ragger
live recording, 2009
This work, written in 1975 for the inauguration of a new organ in the city of Rovereto, is a tribute to the early baroque fantasies as forms of great unstability, of continuous changes and, also, of a certain unstability of expression. All the aspects of this work are in a constant state of change: from the interval FA-SI that goes through all the possible harmonic functions and all possible "translations" and "spellings", to extreme and fast changes of density and registration. L. B.