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Kate Molleson explores the extraordinary relationship between Berio and the singer Cathy Berberian. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, Kate Molleson explores the life and music of one of most influential figures in all of modern music – Luciano Berio. Berio’s music is lyrical and expressive, while never ignoring the most advanced techniques and technologies of his time. He worked with many key figures in 20th Century music while always following his own, very individual path, both through life and in his music, where he constantly pushed at and broke the boundaries he encountered. During this week, Kate looks in more depth at some of these limits: the boundaries he was conditioned to recognise in his youth, the boundaries and possibilities of the human voice, the boundaries of other people, the boundary of Europe’s cultural scene, and the boundaries of the musical past and the musical future. In Tuesday’s programme, Kate explores the extraordinary relationship between Berio and one of the great artists of 20th Century music – the American/Armenian singer Cathy Berberian. Berberian transformed the way in which Berio and other composers wrote for the voice, and challenged the limits of what was possible for a singer. Berio became Berberian’s piano accompanist in the late 1940s and soon afterwards they were married despite not speaking each other’s languages. The pair went on to have an incredibly productive creative partnership, even after their divorce in the 1960s. We’ll hear a piece banned from Italian airwaves for being too suggestive, and Berio’s famous vocal Sequenza, written for Berberian. Plus, we’ll discover how Paul McCartney met Berio and inspired music Berio crafted for Berberian to sing at the Venice biennale in 1967. Canzonetta for piano 4 hands Andrea Lucchesini, Valentina Pagni Lucchesini, piano Sequenza III Cathy Berberian, singer Chamber Music No 1 “Strings in the Earth and Air” Christine Schadeberg, singer Musicians’ Accord Visage Cathy Berberian, singer Luciano Berio, electroacoustic montage Beatles Songs - “Yesterday” Sophia Burgos, singer Sinfonieorchester Basel Ivor Bolton, conductor Requies Prague Modern Pascal Gallois, conductor Produced by Sam Phillips for ��ѿ��ý Audio Wales & West