List of compositions by Luciano Berio

1930s

• Pastorale for piano
• Toccata for piano

  1940s

• Preludio a una festa marina for string orchestra
• L'annunciazione for soprano and chamber orchestra
• Due cori popolari for chorus
• Tre liriche greche for voice and piano
• O bone Jesu for chorus
• Due liriche for voice and orchestra
• Tre canzoni popolari for voice and piano ; in 1952 a fourth song is added, changing the title to Quattro canzoni popolari; arrangements of two songs, "Ballo" and "La donna ideale", are incorporated into Folk Songs
• Tre pezzi for three clarinets
• Petite suite for piano ; published with compositions by Adolfo Berio and Ernesto Berio as Family Album
• Quintetto for wind quintet
• Trio for string trio
• Ad Hermes for voice and piano
• Suite for piano
• Due pezzi sacri for two sopranos, piano, two harps, timpani and twelve bells
• Magnificat for two sopranos, chorus and orchestra
• Concertino for solo clarinet, solo violin, harp, celesta and strings

  1950s

• Quartetto for wind quartet
• Tre vocalizzi for voice and piano
• El mar la mar for two sopranos and five instruments ; reduction for two sopranos and piano ; arrangement for soprano, mezzo-soprano and seven instruments.
• Opus no. Zoo for reciter and wind quintet
• Due liriche di Garcia Lorca for bass and orchestra
• Deus meus for voice and three instruments
• Sonatina for wind quartet ; withdrawn
• Due pezzi for violin and piano
• Study for string quartet
• Quattro canzoni popolari for voice and piano ; the Tre canzoni popolari from 1947, with a fourth song added; arrangements of two songs, Ballo and La donna ideale, are incorporated into Folk Songs
• Cinque variazioni for piano
• Mimusique No. 1 for tape
• Chamber Music for female voice accompanied by clarinet, cello, and harp
• Ritratto di città for tape ; in collaboration with Bruno Maderna
• Nones for orchestra
• Variazione for chamber orchestra
• Mutazioni for tape
• Mimusique No.2 for orchestra
• Quartetto for string quartet
• Allelujah I for five instrumental groups ; reworked as Allelujah II
• Variazione sull'aria di Papageno for two basset horns and strings
• Perspectives for tape
• Divertimento for orchestra
• Serenata for flute and fourteen instruments
• Allelujah II for five instrumental groups ; reworking of Allelujah I
• Thema for tape
• Sequenza I for flute
• Tempi concertanti for flute, violin, two pianos and ensemble
• Différences for flute, clarinet, harp, viola, cello and magnetic tape
• Allez Hop – "racconto mimico" for orchestra ; incorporates material from Mimusique No.2
• Quaderni I for orchestra

  1960s

• Momenti for tape
• Circles for female voice, harp and two percussionists
• Visage for tape
• Quaderni II for orchestra
• Quaderni III for orchestra
• Epifanie for female voice and orchestra ; incorporates Quaderni I–III
• Passaggio – "messa in scena" for soprano, chorus and orchestra
• Esposizione for voices and instruments ; withdrawn; reworked and incorporated in Laborintus II
• Sequenza II for harp ; reused as a solo part in Chemins I
• Traces for soprano, mezzo-soprano, two actors, chorus and orchestra ; withdrawn; parts were reworked and incorporated in Opera
• Sincronie for string quartet
• Folk Songs for mezzosoprano and seven instruments ; arrangement for mezzosoprano and orchestra
• Chemins I for harp and orchestra ; the harp part is Sequenza II
• Wasserklavier for 2 pianos ; solo version published as the third movement of Six encores
• Laborintus II for three female voices, eight actors, one speaker and instruments ; incorporates a reworked version of Esposizione
• Rounds for harpsichord ; version for piano
• Sequenza III for solo voice
• Sequenza IV for piano
• Gesti for alto recorder
• Sequenza V for trombone
• Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda for soprano, tenor, baritone, three violas, cello, double bass, harpsichord ; arrangement of the scena by Monteverdi
• Sequenza VI for viola ; reused as a solo part in Chemins II and Chemins III
• Chemins II for viola and nine instruments ; the viola part is Sequenza VI ; reused in Chemins III
• O King for mezzosoprano and five instruments ; later incorporated into Sinfonia
• Chemins III for viola, nine instruments and orchestra ; the viola part is Sequenza VI, the nine instruments play the same parts as in Chemins II
• Sinfonia for eight solo voices and orchestra ; incorporates O King ; the version that premiered in 1968 was in four movements, a fifth was added in 1969
• Questo vuol dire che for three female voices, small chorus, tape and other available resources
• Sequenza VIIa for oboe ; arranged as Sequenza VIIb; reused in Chemins IV
• Sequenza VIIb for soprano saxophone ; arrangement of Sequenza VIIa
• The Modification and Instrumentation of a Famous Hornpipe as a Merry and Altogether Sincere Homage to Uncle Alfred for flute or oboe, clarinet, percussion, harpsichord, viola, cello ; arrangement of music by Henry Purcell
• Air for soprano and orchestra ; version for soprano, piano, violin, viola and cello ; movement from Opera
• Chemins IIb for orchestra ; reworking of Chemins II ; reused in ''Chemins IIc''

  1970s

• Melodrama for tenor and eight instruments ; movement from Opera
• Opera for ten actors, soprano, tenor, baritone, vocal ensemble, orchestra ; includes reworked materials from Traces ; two movements, Air and Melodrama may be performed separately; revised in 1977 to include Agnus and E vó
• Erdenklavier for piano ; published as the fourth movement of Six encores
• Memory for electric piano and harpsichord
• Autre fois: berceuse canonique pour Igor Stravinsky for flute, clarinet and harp
• Ora for soprano, mezzosoprano, flute, cor anglais, chorus and orchestra ; withdrawn
• Bewegung for orchestra
• Bewegung II for baritone and orchestra ; withdrawn
• Agnus for two sopranos, three clarinets and electric organ ; incorporated into the revised version of Opera
• E vó for soprano and ensemble ; incorporated into the revised version of Opera
• Chemins IIc for bass clarinet and orchestra ; Chemins IIb with an added solo part
• Après Visage for tape and orchestra ; withdrawn
• Recital I for mezzosoprano and eighteen instruments
• Orchestral arrangement of three songs by Kurt Weill: 1) from the 1934 play, "Le Grand Lustucru" "Surabaya Johnny" "Ballad of Sexual Slavery"
• Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
• Linea for two pianos, vibraphone and marimba
• Still for orchestra ; withdrawn
• Cries of London for six voices
• Eindrücke for orchestra
• Per la dolce memoria di quel giorno for orchestra and voice for a ballet by Maurice Béjart
• Calmo – in memoriam Bruno Maderna for mezzo-soprano and twenty-two instruments
• "points on the curve to find..." for piano and twenty-two instruments ; reworked as Echoing Curves
• Per la dolce memoria de quel giorno for tape
• Musica leggera, canone per moto contrario e al rovescio, con un breve intermezzo for flute, viola and cello
• a-ronne radio documentary for five actors ; concert version for eight voices
• Chemins IV for oboe and eleven string instruments ; the oboe part is Sequenza VII ; reworked for soprano saxophone and orchestra
• Chants parallèles for tape
• Diario immaginario radio piece
• Sequenza VIII for violin ; reused in Corale
• Fa-Si for organ
• Quattro versioni originali della Ritirata notturna di Madrid, for orchestra superimposed and transcribed from the Ritirata by Boccherini
• Coro for forty voices and instruments ; extended 1977
• Ritorno degli snovidenia for cello and thirty instruments
• Les mots sont allés... – "recitativo" for cello
• Encore for orchestra
• Scena ; incorporated into ''La vera storia''

  1980s

• Entrata ; incorporated into La vera storia
• Chemins V for clarinet and the 4C digital system, developed by Peppino di Giugno
• Sequenza IXa for clarinet ; drawn from Chemins V ; arranged as Sequenza IXb and Sequenza IXc
• Sequenza IXb for alto saxophone ; arrangement of Sequenza IXa
• Sequenza IXc for bass clarinet ; arrangement Sequenza IXa
• Accordo for four groups of twenty-seven instruments ; the number of players may be multiplied, Berio preferred a total of at least 400 instruments
• La vera storia for soprano, mezzosoprano, tenor, baritone, bass, vocal ensemble and orchestra ; incorporates Scena and Entrata
• Corale for violin, two horns and strings ; the violin part is Sequenza VIII
• Fanfara for orchestra
• Duo – "teatro immaginario" for baritone, two violins, chorus and orchestra ; study for Un re in ascolto
• Lied for clarinet
• Duetti for two violins
• Un re in ascolto – "azione musicale" with libretto by Italo Calvino
• Requies for chamber orchestra
• Voci for viola and orchestra
• Sequenza X for trumpet and piano resonance
• Call for two trumpets, French horn, trombone and tuba
• Terre chaleureuse for wind quintet
• Luftklavier for piano ; published as the fifth movement of Six encores
• Naturale for viola, percussion and recordings of sicilian folk music
• Gute Nacht for trumpet
• Op. 120, No. 1, transcription for orchestra of Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Sonata No. 1, Op. 120
• Ricorrenze for wind quintet
• Formazioni for orchestra
• Echoing Curves for piano and orchestra ; reworking of Points on the curve to find...
• Sequenza XI for guitar
• LB.AM.LB.M.W.D.IS.LB for orchestra
• Ofanìm for two instrumental groups, children's choir, female voice and live electronics
• Canticum novissimi testamenti for eight voices, four clarinets and saxophone quartet
• Festum for orchestra
• Psy for solo double bass
• Feuerklavier for piano ; published as the sixth movement of Six encores
• Continuo for orchestra