Eleanor Cory: Things Are, String quartet n. 3 and other compositions
An invitation to rediscover the compositions of Eleanor Cory arises from the consideration of the beauty of her musical interlockings: she emphasizes the essential role of the instruments used in the composition, she builds...
Carter Pann: The piano’s 12 sides/The bills/The cheese grater/Piano concerto n.1
"Pann, which received a Grammy nomination in 2000 for his first piano concerto, is a sensitive composer, in search of a musical impressionism built without compromise and rhetoric, with constant changes of style: the...
Samuel Adler: Cantos
In queste pagine si è più volte sottolineato come la prospettiva musicale contemporanea proveniente dagli Stati Uniti sia ancora piuttosto distante da quella europea: mentre la prima abbraccia e gioca con i fantasmi del...
Nicolas Bacri
Uno dei migliori e più interessanti frutti del polistilismo contemporaneo è il compositore francese Nicolas Bacri (1961): partito da studi seriali riflessi nelle sue prime opere, Bacri ad un certo punto ha abbandonato la...
Joan Tower: String quartets nos.3-5
Joan Tower's string quartets claim a special versatility within 20th century chamber music: homages and the tributes to friends, artists or specific events are developed with a new centre of gravity and the score...
Peteris Vasks: Flute Concerto
Flute Concerto proves that Vasks not only is one of the most prominent figures in the field of choral music, but also in the other classical segments (from instrumental concerts to chamber music and...
Ross Harris: Symphony n. 5/Violin Concerto
Ross Harris' fifth symphony is probably his masterpiece, a very different piece from the previous ones (almost a dramaturgy) and written as a tribute to the Hungarian poet Panni Palásti, a refugee from the...
Lyell Cresswell: Landscapes of the Soul / Piano Concerto / Concerto for Orchestra and...
"Landscapes of the Soul" is programmatic, it was composed for a project that involved the Italian painter Maurizio Bottarelli in which the aim was to find common ground between music and painting.
A sure point...
Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no. 48
Hovhaness gave to his symphonies a face perpetually fresh, where the tradition of post-romantic Western music (with his best weapon, the melody) was violated by the intrusion of Byzantine polyphony, the modality of classical...
John Corigliano: Conjurer/Vocalise
"....in "Conjurer" we feel alternately mysterious marimbas (the movement Wood), insightful bells, resonating gongs and telepathic drums (the movements Cadence), vibraphones that swallow the time (the movement of metal), compelling mix of membranes and...
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Calvino, le città invisibili, l’Istantanea Ensemble
Continuano le celebrazioni del centenario di Italo Calvino. Il 19 aprile prossimo l’ulteriore omaggio al grande autore arriverà dal Teatro Comunale di Ferrara grazie all’Istantanea Ensemble,...
