Francesco Antonioni believes that composing, playing, and conducting are all parts of the same activity, striving to make music real, physical, and perceived.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Francesco Antonioni writes music for performers, viewing the instrument as a device for dialogue and a tool for two-way communication.
Composition History
Francesco Antonioni's "Ballata" was a commission from the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, led by Sir George Benjamin.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Francesco Antonioni believes art is a form of knowledge, aiming to explore and communicate the world's resonances to listeners.
Compositional Technique
In "Lights, after the thaw," the viola and clarinet soloists explore their roles through music, highlighting their similar voices but different relationships with the orchestra.
Compositional Technique
The division into movements in Antonioni's "Ballata" is based on each subsequent movement being an expansion of the previous one in terms of depth and breadth.
Performer Biography
The conductor for "Lights, after the Thaw" is Vladimir Ashkenazy, one of the world's greatest musicians, with his son Dimitri Ashkenazy on clarinet and Ada Meinich on viola as soloists.
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