Luciano Berio - Concertino for Clarinet, Violin, Harp, Celesta and Strings (1951) [Score-Video]

Luciano Berio - Concertino for Clarinet, Violin, Harp, Celesta and Strings (1951)
Anthony Pay, clarinet
Nona Liddell, violin
The London Sinfonietta
Luciano Berio, conductor
Program Note: I composed Concertino while I was still studying at the Conservatory in Milan with Giorgio Federico Ghedini. I remember the deep impression Ghedini’s instrumental music made on me in those years, and it is therefore inevitable that its impact has filtered into my Concertino.
But there is also something else behind Concertino: I was born in a small town in Italy near the French border, far from the so-called cultural centres. There I lived until the age of eighteen, studying and learning everything I could about my heritage. I never felt regretful nor underprivileged by living in a provincial town, but I felt injured and angry when, in 1945, with the end of Fascism, I realized the extent and the depth of the cultural deprivation that it had imposed upon me. That same year (I was already twenty) for the first time in my life I was able to hear the music of Schoenberg, Milhaud, Hindemith, Bartók, Webern, etc.- that is, the real voices of my European heritage. These composers, and others as well, had previously been forbidden by Fascist “cultural politics”. The impact was traumatic to say the least, and it took me at least five years to recover from it. I believed, and still do, that the best way to deal with traumatic experiences is to cope with them to the end and, if possible, to exorcize them on their own ground.
These are the premises of Concertino, written in 1950. It was one of my last exorcisms of the experiences and encounters of those years and, I think, my last tribute to them. -Luciano Berio
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[@johnkavanagh7831]

I love this piece. From the Universal Edition website:
I composed Concertino while I was still studying at the Conservatory in Milan with Giorgio Federico Ghedini. I remember the deep impression Ghedini’s instrumental music made on me in those years, and it is therefore inevitable that its impact has filtered into my Concertino.
But there is also something else behind Concertino: I was born in a small town in Italy near the French border, far from the so-called cultural centres. There I lived until the age of eighteen, studying and learning everything I could about my heritage. I never felt regretful nor underprivileged by living in a provincial town, but I felt injured and angry when, in 1945, with the end of Fascism, I realized the extent and the depth of the cultural deprivation that it had imposed upon me. That same year (I was already twenty) for the first time in my life I was able to hear the music of Schoenberg, Milhaud, Hindemith, Bartók, Webern, etc.- that is, the real voices of my European heritage. These composers, and others as well, had previously been forbidden by Fascist “cultural politics”. The impact was traumatic to say the least, and it took me at least five years to recover from it. I believed, and still do, that the best way to deal with traumatic experiences is to cope with them to the end and, if possible, to exorcize them on their own ground.
These are the premises of Concertino, written in 1950. It was one of my last exorcisms of the experiences and encounters of those years and, I think, my last tribute to them.
Luciano Berio

[@dakleik]

Great music! And so happy to see the name of one of my teachers, Antony Pay, in the list of players :)

[@Clivejvaughan]

Mmm...didn't know it - a pleasure !

[@gordysadowitz5342]

Echoes of Nielsen. Beautiful.

[@carlose.johansson739]

Berio...one if the greatest! Very expressiv, exciting and good music 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵

[@arielorthmann4061]

Beautiful !

[@MrInterestingthings]

Wonderful to read Berio talk about the censorship of the censorship years!

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

i liked this one very much. So probably early stuff

[@travgabr]

Sembra interrotto, geniale comunque 😊

[@tomandsally]

Magic Forest

[@playingmusiconmars]

This music sounds "old" in terms of Berios style that Steve Reich wasn't fond of as a student - is this an early piece of his? Doesn't Sound like something I'd attribute to him but it's pretty nice!

[@marcoszimmer1267]

Yes, it's one of his first pieces.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Obviously early. Conservative almost though there areis constant interest things happening.

[@RiverbluffMusic]

I love this piece!

[@nigelhaywood9753]

It has some beautiful moments...bit of a weird ending though.

[@machida5114]

quite good...