| Josephus,
I've followed your Sequenza X questions elsewhere with interest. It's become a very commonly played piece in the past 10 years -- lots of recorded versions, etc. A highschooler played it at Lake Placid in '03, much to the delight of Tom Stevens. Many of my students find when they wrap their brains around it that it's not so terribly difficult and Berio, as you know, is one of the most important composers of the last fifty years to have contributed to our repertoire.
There were two versions pre-dating the one that's published, by the way, and my favorite is the fourth, and last, version called Kol-Od (Chemins Vi) for trumpet and orchestra. Fabulous. You should hear Cassone play it from memory sometime.
Try asking somebody to depress the keys for you and play forte Ds, Cs, etc. into the piano. You'll hear pretty clearly which overtones resonate.
Good luck and I hope others take a crack at the Sequenza as well...
EC |