Franco Donatoni

Composer

  • Xenakis / Cage / Hedstrom / Klos Sorensen: Open Percussion

    Xenakis / Cage / Hedstrom / Klos Sorensen: Open Percussion

    BIS Apr 2002
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
    Naxos

    Casella: Divertimento for Fulvia / Iorio, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    CASELLA DONATONI GHEDINI
    Artist
    Iorio
    Released
    Jan 13, 2017

    This programme of four colourful, contrasting but complementary works for small orchestra celebrates the lighter side of four twentieth-century Italian composers, centring on Alfredo Casella’s Divertimento for Fulvia, composed for his young daughter. Casella’s friend Gian Francesco Malipiero wrote Oriente immaginario (Imaginary Orient) for a Futurist play by Achille Ricciardi (1884-1923). Franco Donatoni once called his simply-titled Musica (Music) ‘kind of Schoenberg gone a bit neoclassical’ – but also with a great sense of humour – while Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s Concerto grosso is a twentieth-century tribute to both Bach and Beethoven.

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  • Italian Perspectives - 20th & 21st Centuries Works for Two G
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    Italian Perspectives - 20th & 21st Centuries Works for Two G

    CD · 1 disc

    $16.99
    Composer
    Gilberto Bosco, Aldo Clementi, Alvaro Company, Azio Corghi, Franco Donatoni, Vittorio Fellegara, Bia
    Artist
    Duo Renda-Trucco
    Released
    Aug 16, 2024
    The album's repertoire explores music for two guitars written by Italian composers over the last 50 years. The peculiarity of this program lies in it's eclectic variety, which ranges from more traditional influences, rooted in the past, to distinctly contemporary expressions, exploring in which ways the guitar duo has been approached by different authors. This album features prestigious names: Franco Donatoni, one of the most important Italian composers of the second half of the 20th century; Alvaro Company, guitarist and composer, among the most authoritative students of the famous Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia; Giorgio Colombo Taccani, an extremely active composer in the contemporary music scene, awarded in 2023 with the Golden Guitar for Composition, awarded as part of the 28th International Guitar Conference in Milan. The album boasts numerous first ever recordings: Algo n. 2 by Franco Donatoni, Sonata II by Franco Margola, Colloquio by Bianca Maria Furgeri, Winter day by Vittorio Fellegara, Piccoli rainbowi by Gilberto Bosco, as well as Ricercare by Aldo Clementi, recorded for the first time in the version for two guitars elaborated by Andrea Monarda. Furthermore, Consonancias y Redobles by Azio Corghi (a piece with several possible instrumental destinations) is recorded for the first time by a guitar duo. This project finally marks the recovery of a piece of great value. An image (thinking of Schubert) of Alvaro Company, until now neglected by the guitar world.
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  • Italian Perspectives - 20th & 21st Centuries Works for Two G

    Italian Perspectives - 20th & 21st Centuries Works for Two G

    Stradivarius Aug 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $16.99
    DUX

    Contemporary Ensemble

    CD · 1 disc

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    Composer
    Franco Donatoni, Ricardo Eizirik, Mauricio Kagel, Brigitta Muntendorf, Piotr Peszat, Pawel Szymanski
    Artist
    Malgorzata Mikulska, Tomasz Sowa, Krzysztof Gunka, Wikt
    Released
    Mar 18, 2022
    In 2013 a group of Krakow-based instrumentalists shared the stage as part of the European Workshop for Contemporary Music, conducted by maestro Rudiger Bohn. Having then played together at Darmstadt's Internationale Ferienkurse fur Nee Musik, the musicians established an independent body. A couple of events held in a community center by one of the town's exit roads and in a then neglected theater marked the beginnings of Spoldzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble, a group who specializes in performing new music. This is the ensemble's first entirely self-curated and self-produced album. It includes compositions which shaped the group's identity.
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    Contemporary Ensemble

    DUX Mar 2022
    1 disc
    CD
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