Divertimento Ensemble, Maria Grazia Bellocchio & Sandro Gorli - Gabriele Manca: Offese fantastiche (2024) [24/44]

You have asked me to introduce the pieces featured on this CD. I am very happy to do so, and it seems to me, if you agree, that the best way is to do this is in the form of a dialogue, like those con­ versations we so often have, while walking or drinking a cup of coffee, about the meaning behind our writing music. In recent years, one theme has arisen more and more frequently in what you say: the question of extension in time. A central theme for music, which as we all know is an art that lives in the temporal dimension. Here we can listen to three compositions that you wrote over the last decades: Il dodicesimo studio (2013), Senti! Aspetta! (2019­2020), Offese fantastiche (2023). In these works, the first thing one notices is that your responses to this theme follow opposite paths: the piece for piano and ensemble goes in the direction of expansion, reaching a duration that is unusual for the ‘average’ of today’s music, the pieces for solo piano instead go in the direction of extreme contraction. As if you wanted to provoke the listener with two extreme choices.

Tracklist:
01. SENTI, ASPETTA! per pianoforte e ensemble: I.Parte
02. SENTI, ASPETTA! per pianoforte e ensemble: II.Parte
03. IL DODICESIMO STUDIO: per pianoforte
04. OFFESE FANTASTICHE per pianoforte: I.Furioso e inatteso
05. OFFESE FANTASTICHE per pianoforte: II.Il canto che attraverso come un tunnel
06. OFFESE FANTASTICHE per pianoforte: III.L’esattezza degli uccelli d’inverno
07. OFFESE FANTASTICHE per pianoforte: IV. Ofensas fantásticas
08. OFFESE FANTASTICHE per pianoforte: V. accordi sottratti
09. OFFESE FANTASTICHE per pianoforte: VI. Illeggibile
10. OFFESE FANTASTICHE per pianoforte: VII. El silencio del mero estar


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