Born in Madrid in 1978, pianist, composer and singer Delilah Gutman holds a degree in piano, electronic music and composition from the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi of Milan where she studied with Niccolo Castiglioni, Bruno Zanolini, and Alessandro Solbiati. Her teacher Niccolo Castiglioni joins her on this release and while their music is obviously connected, it is an interesting juxtaposition to hear their distinct differences. Another interesting feature of this release is that Delilah herself performs all of the piano parts on the works.

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Is it really possible to express a thought through music? And even if it is possible, would one be able to communicate it completely and transmit its real essence? From this expressive need Marco Quagliarini’s music is born. It shows his conflict as a contemporary man, shown by that of the sonic material and its structure. Quagliarini’s attempt to investigate the expressive capacity of language brings about a creative result that is a juxtaposition to its origin. Marco Quagliarini is the author of the book ‘Costruire la Musica’ published by Aracne, a book dealing with structural technique and the set theory by Allen Forte in his ‘The Structure of Atonal Music’. The novelty of ‘Costruire la Musica’ is to transform an analytic technique into a compositional tool: the knowledge of this material sparks the composer’s creative possibilities. Even without going into technical details, it is nonetheless fundamental to highlight the principle that enables such a change of view point: the analogy. Thus the composer faces a ‘new freedom of language’, a world of sounds bound by proportion of analogy and strong or weak simile. As the words used by a poet, not being literal translation of a thought; or colours for a painter, not just an imitation of nature; sound is now connected to the sphere of perception and goes beyond the sphere of senses and rational understanding.

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Composer Patrizio Marrone is currently the composer in residence of the Horn Players of International Meetings Guelfo Nalli. A composer of theater, chamber music, and symphonic music, he studied piano with Massimo Bertucci and composition with Bruno Mazzott before studying at the Hochschule fur Musik in Karlsruhe. For this new release, eight of Marrone’s compositions are featured, including his five “Conversazioni con le cose senza nome, along with an Adagio and a Rondo for saxophone quartet, and a flute duet titled “Non E’Una Carezza.” The performing artists featured on this release are Ciro Longobardi, Tommaso Rossi, Daniele Colombo, Antonio Grance, and Quartetto di sassofoni Arcadia.

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This release, entitled 'My soul has nought but fire and ice' compiles three song cycles of the 20th and 21st centuries for solo baritone voice and viola, alongside three solo works for viola. As the listener may imagine, the charm of this music lies in its total reduction to the essential needs of music making: a single voice, a single instrument to support it. Baritone Hartmut Schulz has long been a passionate singer of concert music, but especially of art song. One of his career achievements is being a part of the “Cologne Schubert cycle,”- a project in which all Schubert songs were performed within three years. He is frequently praised by critics for his vocal intelligence and presence on stage. He was educated at Hochschule fur Musik und Tanz, Koln where he studied with Professor Willy Gesell and Professor Margit Kobeck. Schulz has also contributed a work to this album: his three-movement piece Salutatio Virtutum.

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Beethoven and the flute Sonata Op. 17 On 1801 the Sonata was published in Vienna by Mollo, with the title Sonata for Piano with a Horn or Cello. The tradition to perform the composition with the flute dates back to those same years, first of several versions for flute or violin during the composer's life, for distribution in Germany and England. The adaptation for flute was authenticated officially when it was included among other compositions in the opera omnia of Beethoven's work put together by Haslinger in Vienna in 1830, although it was never published. The Serenade Op. 25/41 is a charming succession of six pieces, preceded by an overture. The numbers of the compositions follow one another alternating between peaceful and lively, and the heart of the piece is the magnificent Andante con Variazioni e coda. The spirit of the work is still very eighteenth century, so much so that for a long time it was believed to have been written in 1795. More recent research has placed it closer to the year of publication. Sonata Op. A4 After his death, the manuscript of a Sonata for flute and piano in B flat major was found in his house. It dates back to the eighties and nineties of the eighteenth century, it shows many corrections and deletions, and is not the handwriting of the composer. For this reason, and the fact that no further testimony we received confirms that Beethoven composed a sonata for flute and piano, the origin of the work has long been questioned, and we still lack certainty as to who the author really is. Authoritative Beethovenscholars, the foremost of whom is Willy Hess, consider it authentic. For this, the piece has entered firmly in concert repertoire as a work of the great composer.

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