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ATP001
Richard Trythall
Parts Unknown
Trythall, virtuoso pianist, specialist in contemporary piano music and in the music of composers such as Charles Ives and Jelly Roll Morton, presents a work which was composed over the course of several years. His language, characterized by an extremely intense
expressivity, fuses aspects of American culture - some of which are connected to Jazz - with elements of heterogeneous character ranging from sounds typical of the timbral research of twentieth century experimental music to backward glances towards melodic schemes rooted in the popular musical tradition. The result of this union is a very personal sound world of extreme fascination.
Richard Trythall
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ATP002
Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
This large work for clarinet, violin, 'cello and piano testifies to the fact that music's spirituality can offer a ray of hope even in the darkest moments in which an artist, a human being, may find him or herself. In fact, the conception of this work is strongly marked by the fact that Messiaen had experienced the reality of the concentration camp. It is extremely interesting to hear the performance of this work by young yet already important musicians who, fortunately, have never known such a devastating reality, yet have been capable of infusing this music with expressivity - an expressivity which makes every rhythmic pulsation, every harmonic potential, totally effective - and confirms that works such as this, having no borders nor restrictions, can enter into the most varied and distant existential dimensions.
Olivier Messiaen
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ATP003/4
Roberto Fabbriciani
XX live dream flute
Many important composers have expressed their enthusiastic appreciation of Roberto Fabbriciani - from Cage to
Nono.
The recital which Fabbriciani gave in Sogna exploited a variety of performing spaces - indoors and outdoors - within the village and was, in certain aspects, absolutely unrepeatable. A recording can not fully reproduce this effect, but the concert remains vividly impressed in the memories of those who were present.
The lengthy recital program exhibits the flute in a wide variety of roles demonstrating its enormous potential and eliciting marvel for the wealth of the results obtained by this formidable performer during a "live" concert.
Roberto Fabbriciani
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ATP005
Jean-Pierre
Drouet
Les mains veulent parler aussi
For Drouet, improvisation offers a true scenic space for musical
theatre. With a capacity not easily described, he guides us through an itinerary which unites game play with commitment to a research for new sounds creating sonic realities in which the percussive origins give source to unexpected and fascinating sounds. In the CD recorded in Sogna, Drouet proposes compositions, particularly those of his friend Globokar, which have never before been recorded.
Jean-Pierre Drouet
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ATP006
Bruno
Canino
Clash
Bruno Canino is the most important Italian pianist of his generation. His tireless activity - as soloist and in the company of internationally famous concert artists - has carried him throughout the world. His repertoire is without limits and unites the traditional pianistic literature with numerous first performances of new works which, in many case, have been dedicated to him. In the concert held in
Sogna, in fact, the choice of a program which alternates "classic" music by Cage with young composers such as Sollima and Di Bari is particularly significant.
Bruno Canino
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ATP007
Vinko Globokar
La Tromba è Mobile
A leading member of the avant-garde musical panorama during the 1960's, Globokar unites his role as a world class trombonist with a vast compositional output. In his works, the performing gesture is joined intimately with sonic research - both in the act of improvisation and in the act of composition where his complex sonoral architecture has allowed him to create important symphonic works of vast scope. The original material in this CD, derived from recordings realized in Köln in the late years of the '70's and in Sogna (two improvisation together with Jean-Pierre Drouet), provides a faithful mirror of the artistic climate of those years as well as of the compositional concerns dear to Globokar.
Vinko Globokar
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ATP008
David Moss
Wild world
The case of David Moss is unique. This extraordinary vocalist has a range which goes from bass through high soprano, a powerful voice and a perfectly calibrated intonation. These characteristics make him an exceptional performer who, during his performances, uses extremely advanced computer systems (controlled by his ability as a trained percussionist) to expand his vocal possibilities into a mixed media event (micro-theater) which creates an incredible impression on the audience. Although the visual aspect of this performance is, of necessity, lost on a CD, these are nonetheless compositions of sensational artistic value. All of the pieces are first recordings and
"Pantanal" was written expressly for Atopos.
David Moss
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ATP009
S. Bussotti, G. Cardini, G. Chiari, D. Lombardi
Suono, segno,
gesto visione a Firenze
This valuable recording documents the exceptional meeting of
Bussotti, Cardini, Chiari and Lombardi. Together for the first time, these four composer-pianists are the protagonists of "Florentine Art Music" - an important phenomenon in the history of the second half of the 20th century.
This live concert recording (made October 26, 1999 in the "Buonumore Hall" of Florence's "L.
Cherubini" Conservatory) illustrates their varied approaches towards an experimentation which embodies Sound, Sign, Gesture and Vision in a singular dimension. All of the works were receiving their first performance.
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ATP010
P.Grossi, G.Chiari, G.Cardini, A.Mayr, D.Lombardi, M.Aitiani, S.Maltagliati
Suono Segno Gesto Visione a Firenze 2
More than 50 years of musical culture have taken place in Florence since the end of World War 2. This should be systematically explored.
Besides the celebrations, it is time to acknowledge that, during the 1960’s, Florence produced a “Musica d’Arte” which could retrieve perception, memory, action and performance, through a dramatic meta-language exalting the potential of emotion and atmosphere through the confrontation triggered by individual experiences, opening the way to discoveries of new creative and poetical horizons. The confrontation and dialogue with several of the historical avant-garde’s most profound sources regarding synesthesia - from Kandinsky to futurism, from Scriabin to Schoenberg and the Bauhaus - was to bring the Florentine approach to maturity. In addition to audible forms for listening, the interaction between gesture, sound and vision became sign, making music utopia.
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ATP011
Michael Riessler
Doppelter Boden - Soli
...."soli" is
expanding the presumed limits of an instrument with the help of a personal musical language is central to my approach to the instrument. The focal point is the playful method of improvising with this vocabulary. The performing techniques (circular breathing, simultaneous singing and playing, key tapping rhythms, extremely fast passages which evoke a quasi polyphony, enharmonic changes,
multiphonics, double tonguing, overblowing...) permit the creation of acoustical phenomena which, as with an illusionist, suggest other levels.... This occurs here without the aid of electronic devices or overdubs.
Michael Riessler
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ATP012/013
John Tilbury - Piano
Triadic Memories - Notti Stellate a Vagli
John Tilbury has given concerts and broadcasts of new music, including first performances, in many countries around the world. His solo recordings include Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, from the seventies, and more recently the music of Cornelius Cardew, Howard Skempton, Christian Wolff and the complete solo piano works of Morton Feldman. He is also well known as an improvising musician, through his membership of AMM, one of the most distinguished and influential free improvisation groups to have emerged in the sixties.
John Tilbury
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ATP014
Teodoro Anzellotti
- Accordion
Recondite Fisarmonie
Teodoro Anzellotti was born at Candela in Puglia, but grew up near Baden-Baden and studied at the conservatories of Karlsruhe and Trossingen under Jürgen Habermann and Hugo Noth. Teodoro Anzellotti is the winner of numerous international accordion competitions. He has performed as a soloist at important festivals (Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Donaueschingen, Florence, Milan, Los Angeles, London, Lucerne, New York, Paris, Prague, Rome, Salzburg, Seoul, Venice, Vienna, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw, Zurich) and has worked with numerous orchestras (Kölner-Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Sinfonieorchester Freiburg, SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, NDR Orchester Hamburg, Dresdner Philharmonie, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, ORF Orchester Wien, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Ljublijana). Teodoro Anzellotti is one of the leading accordionists on the international scene. His name is closely linked with the revival of the accordion from the nineteen-eighties on.
Teodoro Anzellotti
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ATP015
Alvin Curran
Endangered Species
Endangered Species is a space, a container which holds my sound archive in little vials of distilled essences. An archive
of distillations culled from years of listening to everything from the mumbled sounds in dreams to threatening roars of
nature gone mad, from the near absolute stillness of an Italian Ferragosto to the din accompanying a Balinese funeral,
Cicadas having sex to mating Bisons, human howling wolfmen, broken fog-horns, Meuzzin calling from Mosques.
Having collected these for over 40 years, they now reappear as elemental bits of digital samples – ordered and layered by the 10’s, 100’s and 1000’s as a giant world-instrument which – mapped to an ordinary 88 key Midi keyboard in numerous groups – enables me, like a living musical instrument, to spontaneously play the entire world from my fingertips, recreating and reconfiguring new worlds from moment to moment, day to day occasion to occasion at each act of performance, each Act of Providence, each act of plowing and turning the soil.
Alvin
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Forthcoming
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G. Gaslini Convergenze del '900 (double CD)
Giorgio Gaslini can be considered as the most composerly of the Italian jazz musicians and, at the same time, as the most jazz oriented of the composers.
His long and glorious career needs no further comment. In line with the great jazz tradition, Gaslini, in his concert at Sogna, re-proposes the well known music by Kurt Weill and George Gershwin filtering their respective European and American sources through his original sound.
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Ars
Ludi Il gesto virtuoso
The percussion ensemble, Ars
Ludi, ranks among the best European groups thanks in particular to the quality of their performances which, developed in close contact with the composers, arrive at extraordinary results of ensemble interplay. This panorama of compositions confirms the recently renewed interest which young composers are paying to ensembles which are slightly unusual. In this CD Ars Ludi obtains their intended ends: a music of evocative and alluring character created through the use of elementary materials: wood, metal, skins....
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