Pratella: Opere da Camera / Astolfi, Nuzzoli, Hernández, Mazzoni, Giurato, Monari, Scattolin, Pratella Ensemble

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Label
Tactus
Release Date
March 4, 2022
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Francesco Balilla Pratella
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Pratella Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Daniela Nuzzoli, Giulio Giurato, Nicola Babini, Saverio Mazzoni
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 04, 2022
    • UPC
      8007194107449
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TC881602
    • LABEL
      Tactus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Andante

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Performer: Giulio Giurato

    2. L'addio

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    3. La morte di Anita, Op. 11

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    4. Felicità-giovinezza

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    5. Tristezza-solitudine

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    6. Canto di guerra, Op. 34

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    7. Inno Associazione Lughese, "Baracca"

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    8. Inno della Vittoria, Op. 29

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Coro da camera di Bologna

      Performer: Alberto Astolfi, Giulio Giurato

      Conductor: Pier Paolo Scattolin

    9. La canzone di Baracca

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Coro da camera di Bologna

      Conductor: Pier Paolo Scattolin

    10. Marcia futurista

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    11. No. 1. L'aspettazione

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Performer: Giulio Giurato

    12. No. 2. La battaglia

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Performer: Giulio Giurato

    13. No. 3. La vittoria

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Performer: Giulio Giurato

    14. Il tamburo di fuoco, Op. 40: La canzone di Mabima

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    15. L'aviatore dro Op. 33: Arrivo di Automobili - Aeroplano - Spasmo e morte di dro

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Coro da camera di Bologna, Pratella Ensemble

      Performer: Raúl Hernández

      Conductor: Pier Paolo Scattolin

    16. Romanza, Op. 24 (arr. for cello and piano)

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    17. Le canzoni del niente, Op. 36: No. 2. La strada Bianca

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    18. Ninanana, Op. 43

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    19. La canta della calciocianamide

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Ensemble: Pratella Ensemble

    20. La vergine di bagnolo

      Composer: Francesco Balilla Pratella

      Performer: Daniela Nuzzoli, Raúl Hernández, Giuseppe Monari

    21. La morte

      Performer: Saverio Mazzoni

    22. La ricreazione umanizzata del mondo

      Performer: Saverio Mazzoni


Francesco Balilla Pratella, one of the most important and eclectic figures of the early-twentieth- century cultural scene in Italy, molded his life to the constant pursuit of spiritual ascension and the quest for the essence of humanity. For him, these conditions were indispensable for achieving the “humanized re-creation of the world”, the primary, essential goal of an artist-creator: “Creation, in an absolute sense, is not a human faculty; we cannot add or remove anything in the universe. But we can humanly re-create the universe, that is, translate it and re-express it with images and values that are essentially human. This is what art is, and this is what life is: a human re-creation of the world in its terms and values, and only for man: a humanization of the world.” So he re-created the world, his world, untiringly dividing himself between musical composition, teaching, the passionate study of folk traditions, and the writing of hundreds and hundreds of theoretic, critical, musical-aesthetic and philosophic texts. The Pratella Ensemble is the interpreter of this production that collects a varied anthology of the composer's chamber production: lieder, instrumental and choral pages that reflect the work and life of a highly original author, protagonist of a historical and cultural moment - that of the futurism - of great experimentation and artistic travail.