Classical Music

Alessandra Rombola writes of her new release: "This disc is the story of a voyage; a trip across the land to a chosen place with a particular resonance. That ancient walls that surround a space marked by the centuries are those of the Hermitage. Of La Anunciada in the Spanish village of Ureuña. That is where the perfect sound is found, where I go each time I want my flute to sing in a natural and warm, yet somehow austere setting. Music for solo flute-micro-music that is gigantic in its naked fragility, made for and with an instrument that lives on breath, al fiato. But this is also a voyage through; an untangling of ardous, delicate, brutal, yet innocent compositions-the experience of interpreting a new repertoire, including some newborn pieces. The idea of provoking-rather than passively awaiting-an evolution, a path reconnoiter, a future in which to project oneself without fear. All of the works on this disk have been premiered by me except for those by José Luis TorA and Alberto Posadas, with whom I had the honor of working very closely. They are an invitation to travel, again and again, reconnoitering this path with the listener who, embarking on this voyage, becomes its final beneficiary."

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Philipp Maintz is one of the most promising composers of the young generation. After the great acclaim of his string quartet, INNER CIRCLE, premiered in 2004 at the Wittener Tage für Neue Musik by the Arditti Quartet, he composed a major orchestral work, heftige landschaften mit 16 bäumen, which was premiered at the Salzburger Festspiele on 21 August 2005 by the Radio-Sinfonierorchester Stuttgart under Lothar Zagrosek and subsequently given in british first performance by the BBC symphony orchestra under Pierre-André Valade. His latest work (for ensemble and live-electronic) was premiered in November 2005 at the festival Wien modern by the Ensemble Intégrales with great success. These three works are performed by Ensemble Alternance, an ensemble of composers who unite to perform one anothers’ compositions.

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Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Plurimo tocar 'I first met vedova when I was eighteen. It was the beninning of a long journey with him, at times slow moving, at times fast and at time even subversive in the true sense of the word. Vedova lived in a warehouse studio at San Vio and at the age of sixteen had made some splendid drawings of great Venetian architecture through which he also in his own way laid bare historical reality as he pursued his development, typical of a completely self-taught artist.' This is how Luigi Nono recalled the beginnings of a friendship, joint interests and a project destined to endure and be renewed for ever. These roots also innervate and characterise the interior geography, the cleary distinguishable personality of Claudio Ambrosini. Of the four works featured on this record, composed from 1998 to 2015, Plurimo is offered as an explicit homage to the painter, a contant living presence in the composer's emotional and cognitive world because of their natural affinites.

Classical Music

Classical Music