Quatre dédicaces (english)

Luciano Berio
Quatre Dédicaces

Fanfara (1982)
Entrata (1980)
Festum (1989)
Encore (1978/1981)

Quatre Dédicaces is the title chosen by Pierre Boulez for a group of four orchestral miniatures by Luciano Berio. A few years before Berio’s death, in response to a suggestion of his assistant Paul Roberts, he discussed with his publisher Universal Edition the possibility of issuing the four pieces as a small ‘album’ and thus make them more available for concert programming. The project had not materialized in Berio’s life, and the performance of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Boulez is the first occasion in which the four pieces are performed together. While each miniature was written for a specific occasion, three of them are related to large theater works on which Berio was working at the same time: Encore and Entrata were integrated in La vera storia (1977-81), Fanfara in Un re in ascolto (1979-83).

Talia Pecker Berio