Luciano Berio 100

Certainly! Here's the translation of the Italian text to English:

*If on a winter's night... a violinist-musicologist says that, besides those by Bartók, there are not enough duets today. It may happen then that a composer starts writing until the first light of dawn... and then continues during moments of rest, in different cities and hotels, between rehearsals, traveling, thinking of someone, searching for a gift.

This is what happened to me, and I am grateful to the nocturnal violinist who indeed gave his name to one of these Duets.

In every piece, there are personal reasons and occasions:*

*In **BRUNO (Maderna)**, there is the memory of the "functional" music we composed together in the fifties. **MAJA (Pliseckaja)**, Russian, gives the name to the transformation of a Russian song. **ALDO (Bennici)**, Sicilian, gives the name to a true Sicilian song. With **PIERRE (Boulez)**, written on the occasion of a farewell evening, I develop a fragment of ...Explosante-fixe... **GIORGIO FEDERICO (Ghedini)** is a memory of my conservatory years.

And so on...* (**LUCIANO BERIO**)

**Francesco D'ORAZIO** and **Paride LOSACCO** on violins

Open concert organized by violinists **Francesco Rinaldi** and **Nicoletta Leone**
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