An Alternative Modernism: David Diamond’s String Quartets Nos. 2, 9 & 10
The American composer David Diamond would seem to have been something of a master of unfortunate timing. Holding to the indispensability of melody and traditional compositional techniques when both were thought to be in...
Stefan Weglowski: From 1 to 7
From 1 to 7 is a seven-part composition that combines two distant regions of music. In explaining the method of construction of this piece, I must say that Stefan Weglowski has synthetically combined an...
Luca Perciballi and Ivan Valentini’s “Letting Things Follow Their Lead”
Room Music
A freely improvised performance doesn’t exist as a work until it’s finished in real time; in a way it’s analogous to a narrative that has no definite meaning until it reaches that point...
Russian jazz musicians: between free and contemporary jazz
Many critics of free improvisation/free jazz insist to give an appropriate value to the sounds that can evoke images or become simulations of an event or an object: this theory is based mainly on...
François Carrier: the Japan suite CD and an interview
Su Percorsi Musicali non si può dire certo che siano mancate le segnalazioni della musica del sassofonista alto canadese François Carrier. Da quando sono entrato in contatto in lui (parecchi anni fa), ho recensito...
Friedrich Cerha: Nacht/Drei Orchesterstucke
The two orchestral compositions included in this long-awaited new CD of work by the composer Friedrich Cerha have a deep tie with the astrolabe and the oriental mystic. To give more detail, both Nacht...
Hèctor Parra and the orchestra
When in 2006 the composer Hèctor Parra Esteve composed Lumières Abyssales-Chroma and Karst-Chroma II, involving the Orchester National d'Ile de France and the Orchester Philharmonique de Liège, the idea of how to highlight the...
Biagio Coppa/Intrepid Trio: Cursed Location
The Intrepid Trio is a project of Milanese soprano and tenor saxophonist Biagio Coppa. Coppa’s roots are in the creative improvised music that evolved out of more mainstream jazz during and after the 1960s;...
Marlies Debacker & Salim(a) Javaid: Convolution
Pianist Marlies Debacker and saxophonist Salim(a) Javaid, both based in Cologne, have been long-time collaborators since meeting as students at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where they both now teach. Debacker, originally...
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Lo Spontaneous Music Festival a Poznań
Nelle tante ricerche che ho svolto per conoscere meglio le realtà musicali nelle varie nazioni europee, devo riconoscere che per la Polonia ho avuto...
