| ... sofferte onde serene ... | |
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| byLuigi Nono | |
.jpg) Luigi Nono in 1979 | |
| Catalogue | ALN 42 |
| Composed | 1976 |
| Published | Casa Ricordi |
| Duration | 14 minutes |
| Scoring | Piano andmagnetic tape |
| Premiere | |
| Date | April 17, 1977 |
| Location | Sala Verdi,Milan Conservatory, Milan |
| Performers | Luigi Nono, sound supervisor Maurizio Pollini, live and taped piano Marino Zuccheri, sound technician |
... sofferte onde serene ... or..... sofferte onde serene ...[a] (Italian: "serene waves suffered"[1] or "endured"),[2]ALN 42, is a composition for piano and tape by Italian composerLuigi Nono. Borne of Nono's friendship and artisticcollaboration withMaurizio Pollini, it was the first of Nono's works in what became his late style.
Nono wrote... sofferte one serene ... for his friendMaurizio Pollini after their 1971–1972 collaboration inComo una ola de fuerza y luz. Nono used the sounds of his nativeVenice, notably itsbell towers, which he heard from across theVenetian Lagoon at home onGiudecca. He finished it there in 1976, dedicating it to Pollini and Pollini's wife Marilisa.[3] Nono's music was affected by the "harsh wind of death", with recent losses includingBruno Maderna,Gian Francesco Malipiero, Nono's parents, and Marilisa'smiscarriage.[4][5]
Nono extended the piano's sonority, emphasizing itspedalresonances via tape.[3] Pollini and sound technician Marino Zuccheri recorded this part at theStudio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano.[1]
Pollini (live and taped piano), Zuccheri (sound technician), and Nono (sound supervisor) gave the premiere at theMilan Conservatory's Sala Verdi on 17 April 1977.
AfterAl gran sole carico d'amore (1972 and 1975), which was inspired bywomen's revolutionary struggle,... sofferte onde serene ... marked a finalintrospective shift within Nono's overtlyleftistœuvre. In the premiere's program note, Nono quotedKafka on the "equilibrium of the profound interior". Nono's music became slower and quieter, with pitches often occupying a highregister ortessitura. He became more concerned withspatiality, especially "floating sounds", and moved toward the use offragments and silences in subsequent works.Heinz-Klaus Metzger observed these changes as an "intensification of [Nono's] identity."[3]
Casa Ricordi published the score (1977, 1992). Pianist and musicologist Paulo de Assis prepared a prototype critical edition at theOrpheus Institute [nl] (2009, unpublished).[6]
... sofferte onde serene ... is a fourteen-minutemovement in 155bars. Tempo markings are very strict and tempo variations based on performance are rare. The original tape recorded by Nono, still used in concert performances, has a thirteen-minute-and-thirty-nine-second duration. Nono used as many as eight reference numbers in the score to keep the piano and the tape synchronized:
... sofferte onde serene ... calls for on-stage piano, a mixer and a sound engineer meant to be placed off-stage, and four loudspeakers: two on the piano and two on the bottom-left and bottom-right corner of the stage. The piece starts with the piano at a tempo of
= ca. 60. Nono marks further tempo changes in almost every bar.[7] He composed the live and taped piano parts to blend in uniformtextures, distinct from his previous violent and contrasting style.[1]
The following is a list of notable performances of this composition:
| Piano | Sound technician | Label | Year of recording |
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| Maurizio Pollini | Marino Zuccheri | Deutsche Grammophon | 1979[8] |
| Aldo Orvieto | Alvise Vidolin | ARTIS Records | 1993[9] |
| Markus Hinterhäuser | André Richard | Col Legno | 1994[9] |
| Iris Gerber | — | Edition Bianchi-neri | 1997[9] |
| Sven Thomas Kiebler | André Richard | 2e2 | 1997[9] |
| Kenneth Karlsson | — | Albedo Music | 2000[9] |
| Stefan Litwin [de] | — | Telos Music | 2001[9] |
| Pascale Berthelot | — | CNSMD | 2003[9] |
| Paulo de Assis | — | Orpheus Institute CD Series | 2018[10] |
| Jan Michiels [nl;fr] | — | Kairos | 2018[11] |
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