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Stradivarius

Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart: Luminaria

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Details

Composer
Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
Artist
Giovanni Martinelli
Format
CD
Label
Stradivarius
Released
Jan 16, 2026
Catalog #
STR37330
UPC
8011570373304

About

Writing the liner notes to this album necessarily compels me to begin with a preamble which fully complieswith the music and renditions it contains: listening to a discographical work is an active act of creation, the moment when we choose to shift our point of observation towards an imaginative reality that, once experienced, appears more authentic and faithful than everyday's ordinariness. This record is intimately aimed at a cultural elite, aware and solid, not necessarily to be identified in guitar confraternities , capable of seizing and elaborating the connections and the sentimental, substantial correspondences between the sound of the guitar and the cultural facts the author decided to express through it. The title «Luminaria» recalls the feeling of a Van Gogh's Night, where lights do not seem to belong to the city anymore, but rather to nature. The author himself says about these works for guitar: «the landscape is nocturnal, we're moving within gilardinian poetics, the pieces are no pianistic milestones, nor are they orchestral solos; they're feeble village lights at the procession for a saint, which do not illuminate the night, and yet make it exist.» These are works complying with the poetics of «places» and of «memory», both converging in a third one represented by «distance». This music deals with an «elsewhere», referring to «here and now» rather than to a spacial acception, there's no irony, magic or enchanted realism, but a vision forged in architectures dense with a thought that fiercely invokes this very «hic et nunc», recalling the powerful verse by Montale to burn now , no other is my meaning. Kevin SwierkoszLenart entrusts these pieces to a young guitarist who has all the qualities to receive and elaborate the author's intimate perceptions; Giovanni Martinelli, dedicatory of these oevres, has one gift distinguishing him from most of his generation's performers: the precocious ability to observe the many facets of things and of the world from above, whose vision he renders deeply and very clearly through the guitar. Thus, both special and rare seems the artistic alliance between author and performer, as if they showed the way one another, and the composer's ideas are embraced by the guitarist with such natural predisposition.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 I. Indomito 03:14
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Indomito
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  2. 2 II. Misterioso 01:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Misterioso
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  3. 3 III. Sulfureo 01:13
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Sulfureo
    Duration
    01:13
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  4. 4 I.­ Andante, con liberta' 06:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    I.­ Andante, con liberta'
    Duration
    06:26
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  5. 5 II. Lento 03:14
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Lento
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  6. 6 III. Agitato 03:45
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Agitato
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  7. 7 Painting 1946 03:25
    Track
    7
    Title
    Painting 1946
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  8. 8 Velletriana 13:53
    Track
    8
    Title
    Velletriana
    Duration
    13:53
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  9. 9 No. 1. Martian Smile 03:44
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 1. Martian Smile
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  10. 10 No. 2. Lysergic Black 01:54
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 2. Lysergic Black
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  11. 11 No. 3. The secret of Fire 03:33
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 3. The secret of Fire
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  12. 12 No. 4. Eura's poem 02:42
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 4. Eura's poem
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  13. 13 No. 5. Time Paradox 02:27
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 5. Time Paradox
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  14. 14 'A Cuccumella 03:36
    Track
    14
    Title
    'A Cuccumella
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli
  15. 15 Innedda innedda 07:25
    Track
    15
    Title
    Innedda innedda
    Duration
    07:25
    Composer
    Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart
    Performer
    Giovanni Martinelli