Nono: ..... sofferte onde serene ... / Maurizio Pollini; Alvise Vidolin (1999.8.14 Salzburg)

Luigi Nono

..... sofferte onde serene ...
for piano and magnetic tape
dedicated to Maurizio and Marilisa Pollini

* About the composition: The title of "..... sofferte onde serene ..." (translatable, perhaps, as "..... serene waves suffered ...") has an indeterminate, hovering quality which derives from the unusual order of the words. Composed in 1976 and dedicated to Maurizio and Marilisa Pollini, it marks the new phase in Nono’s compositional career that followed his second stage work "Al gran sole carico d’amore" (1972-75). The big contrasts, the "contrapuntalism", the use of heterogeneous materials, all the things characteristic of his earlier music, are abandoned here. Piano clusters are studied in a variational light; Nono shows particular interest in the control of the swelling and subsiding of reverberation, deriving an enormous variety of nuances from different kinds of attack and pedal-use, from stamps on the pedal that set the whole instrument reverberating, or - in the case of taped sounds - from careful electronic modifications. Taped and live sounds form independent planes without conflicts: they complement and enlarge each other, with echoes and pre-echoes, and often run inseparably into each other: different aspects of a single object, musical musings on identity. The piece also contains some personal elements: sorrow for the death of relatives of Nono and Pollini, and the sound-world of Nono’s home town of Venice:
"In my house on the Giudecca in Venice the sound of various bells rung in different ways and with different meanings reach our ears continuously, day and night, through the fog or in the sunshine.
"They are indications of life on the lagoon, on the sea.
"Calls to work and to meditation, warnings.
"And life continues there in the painful and calm necessity of the 'balance of the deep interior', as Kafka says." (Luigi Nono).
"..... sofferte onde serene ..." was the composer’s first step along a new path, which had led him via the string quartet "Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima" to "Prometeo".
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Alvise Vidolin, sound technician
August 14, 1999
Salzburg, Mozarteum
(This performance was given as part of "Salzburger Festspiele 1999". The concert was held as the 4th concert of the SERIES "PROGETTO POLLINI II".)

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