List of compositions by Luciano Berio

1940

• Preludio a una festa marina for string orchestra
  String orchestra
  A string orchestra is understood as an orchestra composed solely of certain instruments of the string family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the violoncello, the double bass , the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion...
  
   (1944)
• L'annunciazione for soprano
  Soprano
  A soprano is a singing voice with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music...
  
   and chamber orchestra (1946)
• Due cori popolari for chorus
  Choir
  A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together is called a choir or chorus...
  
   (1946)
• Tre lirichi greche for voice and piano (1946)
• O bone Jesu for chorus (1946)
• Due liriche for voice and orchestra
  Orchestra
  An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
  
   (1947)
• Tre canzoni popolari for voice and piano (1947); in 1952 a fourth song is added, changing the title to Quattro canzoni popolari; arrangements of two songs, "Ballo" and "La donna ideale", are incorporated into Folk Songs
  Folk Songs (Berio)
  Folk Songs is a song cycle by the Italian composer Luciano Berio composed in 1964. It consists of arrangements of folk music from various countries and other songs, forming "a tribute to the extraordinary artistry" of the American singer Cathy Berberian, a specialist in Berio's music.The first...
  
   (1964)
• Tre pezzi for three clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet...
  
  s (1947)
• Petite suite for piano (1947); published with compositions by Adolfo Berio and Ernesto Berio as Family Album (1947)
• Quintetto for wind quintet
  Wind quintet
  A wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players . The term also applies to a composition for such a group....
  
   (1948)
• Trio for string trio
  String trio
  A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and cello, a grouping which had grown out of the baroque trio sonata....
  
   (1948)
• Ad Hermes for voice and piano (1948)
• Suite for piano (1948)
• Due pezzi sacri for two sopranos, piano, two harp
  Harp
  A harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. As many other non-percussion instruments, it can also be used as a percussion instrument. All harps have a neck, resonator and strings. Some, known as frame harps, also have a forepillar;...
  
  s, timpani
  Timpani
  Timpani are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper, and more recently, constructed of more lightweight fiberglass. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick...
  
   and twelve bells (1949)
• Magnificat for two sopranos, chorus and orchestra (1949)
• Concertino for solo clarinet, solo violin
  Violin
  The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
  
  , harp, celesta
  Celesta
  The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...
  
   and strings (1949; revised 1970)

1950

• Quartetto for wind quartet (1950)
• Tre vocalizzi for voice and piano (1950)
• El mar la mar for two sopranos and five instruments (1950); reduction for two sopranos and piano (1953); arrangement for soprano, mezzo-soprano
  Mezzo-soprano
  A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...
  
   and seven instruments (1969).
• Opus no. Zoo for reciter and wind quintet (1951; revised 1971)
• Due liriche di Garcia Lorca for bass and orchestra (1951)
• Deus meus for voice and three instruments (1951)
• Sonatina for wind quartet (1951); withdrawn
• Due pezzi
  Due pezzi (Berio)
  Due pezzi, literally meaning "two pieces", is a composition for violin and piano, written by the Italian composer Luciano Berio in 1951. It was published by Suvini Zerboni. The first performance—by pianist Seymour Lipkin and violinist Lorin Maazel, to whom the work is dedicated—took place during...
  
   for violin and piano (1951)
• Study for string quartet
  String quartet
  A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments — usually two violins, a viola and cello — or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
  
   (1952)
• Quattro canzoni popolari for voice and piano (1952); the Tre canzoni popolari from 1947, with a fourth song added; arrangements of two songs, Ballo and La donna ideale, are incorporated into Folk Songs
  Folk Songs (Berio)
  Folk Songs is a song cycle by the Italian composer Luciano Berio composed in 1964. It consists of arrangements of folk music from various countries and other songs, forming "a tribute to the extraordinary artistry" of the American singer Cathy Berberian, a specialist in Berio's music.The first...
  
   (1964)
• Cinque variazione
  Cinque variazione (Berio)
  Cinque variazione is a composition for solo piano by Luciano Berio, written in 1952/3 and greatly revised in 1966. It was published by Suvini Zerboni and the first performance was given by Berio in Milan in 1953...
  
   for piano (1953; revised 1966)
• Mimusique No. 1 for tape
  Tape
  Tape refers to a strip of long, thin and narrow matter, usually rolled up. Most commonly, it refers to:-Recording media:* Magnetic tape* Digital Audio Tape * Digital Compact Cassette * Digital video tape...
  
   (1953)
• Chamber Music
  Chamber Music (Berio)
  Chamber Music is a composition in three sections for female voice, clarinet, cello and harp by the Italian composer Luciano Berio. It is a setting of three poems from the collection of poetry Chamber Music by James Joyce, whose work was to be a frequent source for Berio...
  
   for female voice accompanied bij clarinet, cello, and harp (1953)
• Ritratto di citta for tape (1954); in collaboration with Bruno Maderna
  Bruno Maderna
  Bruno Maderna was an Italian conductor and composer.-Biography:Maderna was born in Venice. At the age of four he was taught violin in Chioggia, and his grandfather recognized the child's brilliance. So began his career as a child prodigy...
  
  
• Nones
  Nones (Berio)
  Nones is a composition by Luciano Berio scored for orchestra. The piece is named for the poem, "Nones", by W. H. Auden, and was originally intended to be an oratorio on the the poem. The purely instrumental piece is pointillistic in style and formally consists of an approximate arch created by...
  
  for orchestra (1954)
• Variazione for chamber orchestra (1955)
• Mutazione for tape (1955)
• Mimusique No.2 for orchestra (1955)
• Quartetto for string quartet (1955)
• Allelujah I for five instrumental groups (1956); reworked as Allelujah II (1958)
• Variazione "ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" for two basset horns and strings (1956)
• Perspectives for tape (1957)
• Divertimento for orchestra (1957)
• Seranata for flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
   and fourteen instruments (1957)
• Allelujah II for five instrumental groups (1958); reworking of Allelujah I (1956)
• Thema - omaggio a Joyce for tape (1958)
• Sequenza I
  Sequenza I
  Sequenza I is a composition written in 1958 by Luciano Berio for the flutist Severino Gazzelloni. It was first published by Suvini-Zerboni, but the notation was revised much later and this version published by Universal Edition in 1992...
  
  for flute (1958)
• Tempi concertanti for flute, violin, two piano's and ensemble (1959)
• Différences
  Différences (Berio)
  Différences is a composition by the Italian composer Luciano Berio for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, harp and magnetic tape, dating 1958-59. It was written for the Domaine musical concerts in Paris and first performed in March 1959, conducted by Pierre Boulez.Différences is one of the first...
  
   for flute, clarinet, harp, viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size, closeness in pitch range , and nearly identical playing position...
  
  , cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra...
  
   and magnetic tape (1959)
• Allez Hop - "raconto mimico" for orchestra (1959; revised 1968); incorporates material from Mimusique No.2 (1955)
• Quaderni I for orchestra (1959)

1960

• Momenti for tape (1960)
• Circles
  Circles (Berio)
  Circles is a composition for female voice, harp and two percussionists by the Italian composer Luciano Berio. Written in 1960 Circles is a setting of three poems by E. E. Cummings.-Context of the composition:...
  
  for female voice, harp and two percussionists (1960)
• Visage for tape (1961)
• Quaderni II for orchestra (1961)
• Quaderni III for orchestra (1961)
• Epifanie
  Epifanie (Berio)
  Epifanie is a musical composition in twelve movements by the Italian composer Luciano Berio.In Italian an epifania indicates a sudden spiritual manifestation . Berio composed his Epifanie between 1960 and 1963, and published a revised version in 1965...
  
   for female voice and orchestra (1961; revised 1965); incorporates Quaderni I-III
• Passaggio - "messa in scena" for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1963)
• Esposizione for voices and instruments (1963); withdrawn; reworked and incorporated in Laborintus II (1965)
• Sequenza II
  Sequenza II
  Sequenza II is a composition for unaccompanied harp by the Italian composer Luciano Berio. Written for and premiered by the French harpist Francis Pierre in 1963, it has since been performed and recorded by Frédérique Cambreling, Susan Jolles, and Claudia Antonelli, among others.As with most of...
  
  for harp (1963); reused as a solo part in Chemins I (1964)
• Traces for soprano, mezzo-soprano, two actors, chorus and orchestra (1963); withdrawn; parts were reworked and incorporated in Opera (1970)
• Sincronie for string quartet (1964)
• Folk Songs
  Folk Songs (Berio)
  Folk Songs is a song cycle by the Italian composer Luciano Berio composed in 1964. It consists of arrangements of folk music from various countries and other songs, forming "a tribute to the extraordinary artistry" of the American singer Cathy Berberian, a specialist in Berio's music.The first...
  
   for mezzosoprano and seven instruments (1964); arrangement for mezzosoprano and orchestra (1973)
• Chemins I for harp and orchestra (1964); the harp part is Sequenza II (1963)
• Wasserklavier for piano (1965); published as the third movement of six encores (1990)
• Laborintus II for three female voices, eight actors, one speaker and instruments (1965); incorporates a reworked version of Esposizione (1963)
• Rounds for harpsichord (1965); version for piano (1965)
• Sequenza III for solo voice (1966)
• Sequenza IV
  Sequenza IV
  Sequenza IV for solo piano is the fourth in a series of solo works by Luciano Berio that started with the publication of Sequenza I for solo flute ....
  
  for piano (1966)
• Gesti for recorder (1966)
• Sequenza V
  Sequenza V
  Sequenza V is a composition for solo trombone by Luciano Berio, part of his series of pieces with this title. Written in 1965 for Stuart Dempster, it has since been performed and recorded by Vinko Globokar, Benny Sluchin, Christian Lindberg, and others...
  
  for trombone (1966)
• Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda for soprano, tenor, baritone, three violas, cello, double bass, harpsichord (1966); arrangement of the opera by Monteverdi
  Claudio Monteverdi
  Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi , was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period...
  
  
• Sequenza VI for viola (1967); reused as a solo part in Chemins II (1967) and Chemins III (1968)
• Chemins II for viola and nine instruments (1967); the viola part is Sequenza VI (1967); reused in Chemins III (1968)
• O King for mezzosoprano and five instruments (1967); later incorporated into Sinfonia
  Sinfonia (Berio)
  Sinfonia is a composition by the Italian composer Luciano Berio that was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its 125th anniversary...
  
  (1968)
• Chemins III for viola, nine instruments and orchestra (1968); the viola part is Sequenza VI (1967), the nine instruments play the same parts as in Chemins II (1967)
• Sinfonia
  Sinfonia (Berio)
  Sinfonia is a composition by the Italian composer Luciano Berio that was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its 125th anniversary...
  
  for eight solo voices and orchestra (1968); incorporates O King (1968); the version that premiered in 1968 was in four movements, a fifth was added in 1969
• Questo vuol dire che for three female voices, small chorus, tape and other available resources (1968)
• Sequenza VIIa for oboe (1969); arranged as Sequenza VIIb; reused in Chemins IV (1975)
• Sequenza VIIb for soprano saxophone (1969); arrangement of Sequenza VIIa (1969)
• The Modification and Instrumentation of a Famous Hornpipe as a Merry and Altogether Sincere Homage to Uncle Alfred for flute or oboe, clarinet, percussion, harpsichord, viola, cello (1969); arrangement of music by Henry Purcell
  Henry Purcell
  Henry Purcell , was an English Baroque composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Air for soprano and orchestra (1969); version for piano, violin, viola and cello (1970); movement from Opera (1970)
• Chemins IIb for orchestra (1969); reworking of Chemins II (1967); reused in Chemins IIc (1972)

1970

• Melodrama for tenor and eight instruments (1970); movement from Opera (1970)
• Opera for ten actors, soprano, tenor, baritone, vocal ensemble, orchestra (1970); includes reworked materials from Traces (1963); two movements, Air (1970) and Melodrama (1970) may be performed separately; revised in 1977 to include Agnus (1971) and E vó (1972)
• Erdenklavier for piano (1970); published as the fourth movement of Six encores (1990)
• Memory for electric piano and harpsichord (1970; revised 1973)
• Autre fois: berceuse canonique pour Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of...
  
  for flute, clarinet and harp (1971)
• Ora for soprano, mezzosoprano, flute, cor anglais, chorus and orchestra (1971); withdrawn
• Bewegung for orchestra (1971; revised 1984)
• Bewegung II for baritone and orchestra (1971); withdrawn
• Agnus for two sopranos, three clarinets and electric organ (1971); incorporated into the revised version of Opera (1977)
• E vó for soprano and ensemble (1972); incorporated into the revised version of Opera (1977)
• Chemins IIc for bass clarinet and orchestra (1972); Chemins IIb (1969) with an added solo part
• Après Visage for tape and orchestra (1972); withdrawn
• Recital I (for Cathy)
  Recital I (for Cathy)
  Recital I is a stage work by the Italian composer Luciano Berio. It was written for Cathy Berberian, with whom Berio was married from 1950 to 1964, and is scored for vocalist, two pianos, harpsichord and chamber orchestra...
  
  for mezzosoprano and eighteen instruments (1972)
• Concerto for two pianos and orchestra (1973)
• Linea for two pianos, vibraphone and marimba (1973)
• Still for orchestra (1973); withdrawn
• Cries of London for six voices (1974)
• Eindrücke for orchestra (1974)
• Per la dolce memoria di quel giorno for orchetra and voice (on tape ?) for a ballet by Maurice Béjart (1974)
• Calmo - in memoriam Bruno Maderna for mezzo-soprano and twentytwo instruments (1974)
• "points on the curve to find..." for piano and twentytwo instruments (1974); reworked as Echoing Curves (1988)
• Per la dolce memoria de quel giorno for tape (1974)
• Musica leggera, canone per moto contrario e al rovescio, con un breve intermezzo for flute, viola and cello (1974)
• a-ronne radio documentary for five actors (1974); concert version for eight voices (1975)
• Chemins IV for oboe and eleven string instruments (1975); the oboe part is Sequenza VII (1969); reworked for soprano saxophone and orchestra (2000)
• Chants parallèles for tape (1975)
• Diario immaginario radio piece (1975)
• Sequenza VIII for violin (1975); reused in Corale (1981)
• Fa-Si for organ (1975)
• Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata notturna di Madrid", for orchestra (1975) superimposed and transcribed from the Ritirata by Boccherini
• Coro for forty voices and instruments (1976); extended 1977
• Ritorno degli snovidenia for cello and thirty instruments (1977)
• Les mots sont allés... - "recitativo" for cello (1978)
• Encore for orchestra (1978; revised 1981)
• Scena (1979); incorporated into La vera storia (1981)

1980

• Entrata (1980); incorporated into La vera storia (1981)
• Chemins V for clarinet and the 4C digital system, developed by Peppino del Giugno (1980)
• Sequenza IXa for clarinet (1980); drawn from Chemins V (1980); arranged as Sequenza IXb (1980) and Sequenza IXc (1980)
• Sequenza IXb for alto saxophone (1980); arrangement of Sequenza IXa (1980)
• Sequenza IXc for bass clarinet (1980); arrangement Sequenza IXa (1980)
• Accordo for four groups of twentyseven instruments (1980); the number of players may be multiplied, Berio preferred a total of at least 400 instruments
• La vera storia for soprano, mezzosoprano, tenor, baritone, bass, vocal ensemble and orchestra (1981); incorporates Scena (1979) and Entrata (1980)
• Corale for violin, two horns and strings (1981); the violin part is Sequenza VIII (1975)
• Fanfara for orchestra (1982)
• Duo - "teatro immaginario" for baritone, two violins, chorus and orchestra (1982); study for Un re in ascolto (1984)
• Lied for clarinet (1983)
• Duetti for two violins (1983)
• Un re in ascolto
  Un re in ascolto
  Un re in ascolto is an opera by Luciano Berio, who also wrote the libretto. The libretto is based on an idea by Italo Calvino, incorporating excerpts from Friedrich Einsiedel and Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter's eighteenth century libretto on Shakespeare's The Tempest as well as W. H. Auden's The Sea...
  
  - "azione musicale" with libretto by Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and America, he was...
  
   (1984)
• Requies for chamber orchestra (1984)
• Voci for viola and orchestra (1984)
• Sequenza X
  Sequenza X
  Sequenza X is a composition for trumpet and piano by Luciano Berio, the tenth in his series of pieces with this title. The work was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Thomas Stevens, and premiered by him on November 19, 1984...
  
  for trumpet and piano resonance
  Resonance
  In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate at larger amplitude at some frequencies than at others. These are known as the system's resonant frequencies . At these frequencies, even small periodic driving forces can produce large amplitude vibrations, because the system...
  
   (1984)
• Call for two trumpets, French horn, trombone and tuba (1985)
• Terre chaleureuse for wind quintet (1985)
• Luftklavier for piano (1985); published as the fifth movement of Six encores (1990)
• Naturale for viola, percussion and recordings of sicilian folk music (1985)
• Gute Nacht for trumpet (1986)
• Ricorrenze for wind quintet (1987)
• Formazione for orchestra (1987)
• Echoing Curves for piano and orchestra (1988); reworking of Points on the curve to find... (1974)
• Sequenza XI
  Sequenza XI
  Sequenza XI for solo Guitar is one of a series of Sequenzas by Luciano Berio. Written for the American guitarist Eliot Fisk, it is an innovative investigation into the dramatic and virtuosic possibilities of musical performance....
  
  for guitar (1988)
• LB.AM.LB.M.W.D.IS.LB for orchestra (1988)
• Ofanìm for children's chorus, ensemble, female voice and live electronics (1988; revised 1997)
• Canticum novissimi testamenti for four clarinets, saxophone quartet and eight singers(1989)
• Festum for orchestra (1989)
• Feuerklavier for piano (1989); published as the sixth movement of Six encores (1990)
• Continuo for orchestra (1989; revised 1991)

1990

• Brin for piano (1990); the first movement of Six encores (1990)
• Leaf for piano (1990); the second movement of Six encores (1990)
• Six Encores for piano (1990); includes Brin (1990), Leaf (1990), Wasserklavier (1965), Erdenklavier (1969), Luftklavier (1985) and Feuerklavier (1989)
• Rendering for orchestra (1990); orchestration of the sketches for Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
  's tenth symphony
  Symphony No. 10 (Schubert)
  Schubert's Symphony No. 10 in D major, D 936A is an unfinished work that survives in a partly fragmentary piano sketch. Only properly identified in the 1970s, it has been orchestrated by Brian Newbould in a conjectural completion that has subsequently been performed, published and recorded.-The...
  
  
• Epiphanies for female voice and orchestra (1991)
• Chemins V for guitar and chamber orchestra; the guitar part is Sequenza XI (1992)
• Notturno for string quartet (1993); reworked for string orchestra (1995)
• Rage and Outrage for voices and orchestra (1993); arrangement of songs about the Dreyfus affair
  Dreyfus Affair
  The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November, 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent...
  
  
• Compass for orchestra (1994)
• Re-Call for twenty three instruments (1995)
• Hör for Chorus and Orchestra (1995); prologue of Requiem der Versöhnung, a collaborative work by fourteen composers
• Sequenza XII
  Sequenza XII
  Sequenza XII is a composition for solo bassoon, written by Luciano Berio in 1995 , and part of a series of fourteen Sequenze composed between 1958 and 2002....
  
  for bassoon (1995)
• Sequenza XIII - chanson for accordion (1995)
• Outis azione musicale (1995–1996)
• Ekphrasis - continuo II for orchestra (1996)
• Récit - chemins VII for alto saxophone and orchestra (1996)
• Kol Od - chemins VI
  Kol-Od
  Kol-Od is a composition for solo trumpet and chamber ensemble by Luciano Berio. The ensemble consists of 3 flutes, oboe, 4 clarinets, 2 saxophones, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, celeste, accordion and strings....
  
  for trumpet and ensemble (1996); the trumpet part is sequenza X (1984)
• Glosse for string quartet
  String quartet
  A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments — usually two violins, a viola and cello — or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
  
   (1997)
• Alternatim for clarinet, viola and orchestra (1997)
• Korót for eight cellos (1998)
• Altra voce for alto flute, mezzo-soprano and live electronics (1999)
• SOLO for trombone and orchestra (1999), dedicated to trombonist Christian Lindberg
  Christian Lindberg
  Christian Lindberg is a Swedish trombone virtuoso. Lindberg has premiered over 200 works, including over 70 new concerti. His performances are characterised as having “a charismatic intensity of delivery” ....
  
  
• Cronaca del luogo azione musicale (1999).

2000

• Sonata for piano (2001)
• E si pusci for chorus (2002)
• Sequenza XIV for cello (2002); version for bass (2004)
• Stanze for bariton, chorus and orchestra (2003)