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Matteo D'Amico: Le creature di Ade

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Details

Composer
Matteo D'Amico
Artist
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Chiara Osella
Format
CD
Label
Stradivarius
Released
May 16, 2025
Catalog #
STR37308
UPC
8011570373083

About

... The works collected here, written for different orchestral settings, with or without voice, offer a certainly not exhaustive but solid and truthful image of the specificity of the figure of Matteo D'Amico on the contemporary compositional horizon: the ability and will to weld thought to musical matter, gesture to form, sound to sense. In his vast catalogue, it is always possible to find this trail, transmitted with firm persuasion and happy results. Like an identifying mark, an author's scratch, an opening passage frequently recurs in his works that opens the curtain, only to then perhaps stop, look around, listen to the voices of his fellow travellers, and resume the journey: thus, immediately, in Le creature di Ade (The Creatures of Hades), a 'concert ouverture' composed in 2004 and dedicated to Daniele Gatti, who was it's first conductor. The title alludes to The Creatures of Prometheus, Beethoven's work written for a choreography by Salvatore Viganò. The darkness of Hades, the opening up of it's abysses, the terror induced in those who cross it, a sense of fearful waiting that allows a more encouraging trace to filter through, the reemergence of the anguished expectation: the exemplary journey of instrumental theatre precedes the final twist, marked by a lively rhythmic charge, which in it's sudden conclusion leaves one gasping for breath, while in the body of a classically structured orchestra the colours of the saxophone and the pressing variety of the percussion set emerge... Sandro Cappelletto

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 Le creature di Ade 16:18
    Track
    1
    Title
    Le creature di Ade
    Duration
    16:18
    Composer
    Matteo D'Amico
    Ensemble
    I Pomeriggi Musicali
    Conductor
    Carlo Boccadoro
  2. 2 No. 1. Suspir de me mari ta na rosa (Sospiro di mia madre su una rosa) 04:16
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1. Suspir de me mari ta na rosa (Sospiro di mia madre su una rosa)
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Matteo D'Amico
    Performer
    Chiara Osella
    Ensemble
    I Pomeriggi Musicali
    Conductor
    Carlo Boccadoro
  3. 3 No. 2. Tacevi e quel tacere era infinito 02:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2. Tacevi e quel tacere era infinito
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Matteo D'Amico
    Performer
    Chiara Osella
    Ensemble
    I Pomeriggi Musicali
    Conductor
    Carlo Boccadoro
  4. 4 No. 3. Il narciso e la rosa 03:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. Il narciso e la rosa
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Matteo D'Amico
    Performer
    Chiara Osella
    Ensemble
    I Pomeriggi Musicali
    Conductor
    Carlo Boccadoro
  5. 5 No. 4. Supplica a mia madre 03:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 4. Supplica a mia madre
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Matteo D'Amico
    Performer
    Chiara Osella
    Ensemble
    I Pomeriggi Musicali
    Conductor
    Carlo Boccadoro
  6. 6 Adagio 06:50
    Track
    6
    Title
    Adagio
    Duration
    06:50
    Composer
    Matteo D'Amico
    Ensemble
    I Pomeriggi Musicali
    Conductor
    Carlo Boccadoro
  7. 7 Attende Domine (version for voice and orchestra) 05:59
    Track
    7
    Title
    Attende Domine (version for voice and orchestra)
    Duration
    05:59
    Composer
    Matteo D'Amico
    Performer
    Chiara Osella
    Ensemble
    I Pomeriggi Musicali
    Conductor
    Carlo Boccadoro
  8. 8 Mozart allo specchio 07:31
    Track
    8
    Title
    Mozart allo specchio
    Duration
    07:31
    Composer
    Matteo D'Amico
    Ensemble
    I Pomeriggi Musicali
    Conductor
    Carlo Boccadoro