Chamber Music (Berio)

Composition by Luciano 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. The songs were composed in 1953, and show the influence of Luigi Dallapiccola with whom Berio had studied in 1952 at the Tanglewood Music Center.

About his composition Berio said that,

[a]s often happens to me with important encounters, I reacted to Dallapiccola with four works: Due pezzi, for violin and piano, Cinque variazioni, for piano (based upon the three-note melodic cell—"fratello"[014]—from Il prigioniero), Chamber Music (setting poems by Joyce) and Variazione, for chamber orchestra. With these pieces I entered Dallapiccola's "melodic" world, but they also allowed me to escape from it. (Berio, Dalmonte & Varga 1985, p. 53)

## References

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* Berio, Luciano; Dalmonte, Rosanna; Varga, Bálint András (1985), Two Interviews, London: Boyars, ISBN 0-7145-2829-3

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List of compositions

Stage works|

* Un re in ascolto
* Cronaca del luogo

Orchestral works|

* Nones
* Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
* Rendering

Chamber music|

* Due pezzi
* Chamber Music
* Différences
* Circles
* Kol-Od

Instrumental music|

* Cinque variazioni
* Sequenza
* I
* II
* IV
* V
* VI
* VII
* X
* XI
* XII
* XIV

Vocal music|

* Folk Songs
* Sinfonia
* A-Ronne
* Coro
* Cries of London

Arrangements|

* The Modification and Instrumentation of a Famous Hornpipe as a Merry and Altogether Sincere Homage to Uncle Alfred
* Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata notturna di Madrid"
* Op. 120, No. 1

Collaborations|

* A Garland for Dr. K.
* Requiem of Reconciliation

Other compositions|

* Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)
* Epifanie
* Laborintus II
* Recital I (for Cathy)

Related articles|

* Cathy Berberian (wife)
* Polystylism
* Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano
* Tempo Reale
* Turandot (completed in 2002)

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* MusicBrainz work

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