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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 e 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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ATP011
Michael Riessler
Doppelter Boden - Soli
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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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