Ghedini: Architetture - Contrappunti - Marinaresca e baccanale
12/4/2013, 12 Tracks, 1:06:09
Featuring
Francesco La Vecchia
Paolo Chiavacci
Riccardo Savinelli
Giuseppe Scaglione
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Did you know?
1/7
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ghedini's music often sounds unique because he uses familiar musical elements in remarkably new ways, creating a distinct style that builds unresolved intensity.
Critical Reception
Ghedini's music was championed by famous conductors, including his pupils Guido Cantelli and Claudio Abbado, as well as Carlo Maria Giulini, Herbert von Karajan, and Sergiu Celibidache.
Compositional Technique
Ghedini's Architetture, meaning 'Architectures,' organizes abstract musical elements into 'edifices in sound,' using different orchestra sections as contrasted blocks that only fully combine at the very end.
Composer Biography
Giorgio Federico Ghedini, an Italian composer, achieved widespread recognition in his home country at the age of 48 with the premiere of his work Architetture in 1941.
Compositional Technique
The work Marinaresca e baccanale, or 'Sea Piece and Bacchanale,' was inspired by Ghedini's imagination and is noted for its unique orchestral effects and obsessive thematic reiterations, evoking a bleak, elemental nature.
Composer Biography
Despite living inland for most of his life, Ghedini's music, like Britten's, frequently features the sea as a 'tormenting presence,' notably in his Concerto dell'albatro and Marinaresca e baccanale.
Compositional Technique
In Contrappunti, Ghedini creates a 'point against point' or 'note against note' rhythmic unison, departing from traditional counterpoint and showing kinship with Beethoven rather than Bach.
