The composers featured on this album, despite their different poetic universes, shared a common goal: to renew their musical language and create a national Italian style by drawing from tradition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Giacinto Scelsi's piano works often originated from his improvisations, which he practiced as a search for a meditative flow state, with scores sometimes being mere transcriptions of these gestures.
Critical Reception
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Il raggio verde" (1916), a work of French flavor, reportedly caused "scandal everywhere" at its premiere due to public opposition.
Compositional Technique
Luigi Dallapiccola's "Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera" (1952) rigorously and personally uses dodecaphony, blending it with contrapuntal tradition to achieve lyricism and formal balance.
Album & Artwork
This album, titled "Illustrazioni d'Italia," is a tribute to five extraordinary figures in 20th-century Italian music, recorded in Järvenpää, Finland.
Composer Biography
Nino Rota, known for his historic contributions to cinema, also created a large body of instrumental, chamber, and symphonic works characterized by fluency and expressiveness.
Composition History
Luigi Dallapiccola's "Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera" is dedicated to his daughter Annalibera for her eighth birthday and also pays homage to J. S. Bach, referencing his "Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena."
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