... sofferte onde serene ...

... sofferte onde serene ... (Italian for "serene waves suffered"[1] or "serene waves endured"),[2] ALN 42, is a composition for piano and tape by Italian composer Luigi Nono. The Archivio Luigi Nono uses the form ..... sofferte onde serene ..., derived from the cover of the manuscript.

... sofferte onde serene ...
by Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono in 1979
CatalogueALN 42
Composed1976
PublishedRicordi
Duration14 minutes
ScoringPiano and magnetic tape
Premiere
DateApril 17, 1977
LocationSala Verdi, Milan Conservatory, Milan
PerformersMaurizio Pollini

Composition

Composed in 1976, this was one of the pieces Nono wrote for piano when he was involved in a professional collaboration with pianist Maurizio Pollini, which started in Como una ola de fuerza y luz. It is considered to be the first composition in his compositional career's new phase after finishing his second stage work Al gran sole carico d'amore, composed between 1972 and 1975, where he abandoned his use of contrapuntalism, heterogeneous materials and big contrasts that made Nono well known in the past. Nono wanted to integrate in it some personal elements of both himself and Pollini, specially the sorrow for the death of both their relatives and the sound world of Nono's home town Venice. The piece was finished in 1976 in Giudecca and was dedicated to both Maurizio and Marilisa Pollini, whereas the tape part was recorded at the Studio di fonologia della Rai, in Milan, with Pollini and sound technician Marino Zuccheri.[1] The premiere took place at Milan Conservatory's Sala Verdi on 17 April 1977, with Pollini at the piano, Marino Zuccheri as the sound technician and Luigi Nono himself as the sound supervisor. It was later published by Ricordi in 1977 and 1992, but musicologist Paulo de Assis published a prototype critical edition in 2009.[3]

Structure

... sofferte onde serene ... is in only one movement and has a total duration of fourteen minutes exactly, since tempo markings are very strict and tempo variations based on performance are rare. It consists of a total of 155 bars. The original tape recorded by Nono and still used in concert performances has a duration of thirteen minutes and thirty-nine seconds. Nono also included up to eight reference numbers in the score in order to keep the piano and the tape synchronized.

  1. 00:54 – Begin after three seconds
  2. 01:56 – Begin after three seconds
  3. 02:57 – Begin immediately
  4. 05:11 – Begin immediately
  5. 06:49 – Begin immediately
  6. 09:16 – Begin immediately
  7. 11:49 – Begin immediately
  8. 13:14 – Begin after two seconds

This composition calls for an on-stage piano, a mixer and a sound engineer meant to be placed off-stage, and four loudspeakers: two placed on the piano and two more placed on the bottom-left and bottom-right corner of the stage. The piece starts with the piano at a tempo of quarter note = ca. 60. However, Nono marks further tempo changes in almost every bar.[4] Since the piano is present both on-stage and in the tape recording, the sounds are meant to blend and create a uniform texture, far from his previous violent and contrasting style.[1]

Recordings

The following is a list of notable performances of this composition:

Piano Sound technician Label Year of recording
Maurizio Pollini Marino Zuccheri Deutsche Grammophon 1979[5]
Aldo Orvieto Alvise Vidolin ARTIS Records 1993[6]
Markus Hinterhäuser André Richard Col Legno 1994[6]
Iris Gerber — Edition Bianchi-neri 1997[6]
Sven Thomas Kiebler André Richard 2e2 1997[6]
Kenneth Karlsson — Albedo Music 2000[6]
Stefan Litwin — Telos Music 2001[6]
Pascale Berthelot — CNSMD 2003[6]
Jan Michiels — Kairos 2018[lower-alpha 1]

Notes
  1. Newly produced reconstruction of the original stereo tape

References
  1. Döpke, Doris (1979). Liner Notes in DG 423 248-2. West Germany: Deutsche Grammophon.
  2. "Blue" Gene Tyranny. ... sofferte onde serene ..., for piano & tape at AllMusic
  3. Assis, Paulo de (22 September 2014). "Con Luigi Nono: Unfolding Waves". Journal for Artistic Research. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  4. Nono, Luigi (1977). ..... sofferte onde serene... per pianoforte e nastro magnetico. Milan: Ricordi. Archived from the original on 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  5. "Luigi Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz; Sofferte onde serene; Contrappunto dialettico alla mente – Claudio Abbado | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  6. "..... sofferte onde serene ..." Luigi Nono. Retrieved 14 January 2019.

Further reading
  • Carvalho, Mário Vieira de. 1999. "Towards Dialectic Listening: Quotation and Montage in the Work of Luigi Nono". Contemporary Music Review 18, no. 2:37–85.
  • Caselli, Massimo. 1992. "... sofferte onde serene ... de Luigi Nono". Revista Música 3, no. 1:17.
  • Harris, John Mark. 2003. "Performing Luigi Nono's ... sofferte onde serene ...". DMA diss. La Jolla: University of California, San Diego.
  • Linden, Werner. 1989. Luigi Nonos Weg zum Streichquartett: Vergleichende Analysen zu Seinen Kompositionen Liebeslied, ... sofferte onde serene ..., Fragmente, Stille, An Diotima. Kassel: Bärenreiter. ISBN 3-7618-0940-9.
  • Miller, Darren. 2014. "The Collaborative Role of the Technician in ... onde sofferte serene ...". Revista Vortex 2, no. 1:37–47.
  • Riede, Berndt. 1986. Luigi Nonos Kompositionen mit Tonband: Ästhetik des musikalischen Materials, Werkanalysen, Werverzeichnis. Berliner Musikwissenswchaftliche Arbeiten 28. Muniuch: E. Kartzbichler.
  • Rizzardi, Veniero. 1999. "Notation, Oral Practice and Performance Practice in the Works with Tape and Live Electronics by Luigi Nono". Contemporary Music Review 18, no. 1:47–56.
  • Spangemacher, Friedrich. 1983. Luigi Nono, die elektronische Musik: historischer Kontext, Entwicklung, Kompositionstechnik. Forschungsbeiträge zur Musikwissenschaft 29. Regensburg: G. Bosse.
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