Bruno Maderna
"My grandfather thought that if you could play the violin, you could then do anything, even become the biggest gangster. If you play the violin, you are always sure of a place in heaven."
"My grandfather thought that if you could play the violin, you could then do anything, even become the biggest gangster. If you play the violin, you are always sure of a place in heaven."
La Morte Ha Fatto L'uovo
Wow! ** LP 140gr + insert 30 x30. Orange Vinyl ** "La Morte ha Fatto l’Uovo” (1968), here published for the first time on vinyl, is a distinctive score distinguished by avant-garde soundscapes that mix the dazzling tones of an unusual thriller that pays homage to Luis Buñuel's filmography. “Death Laid an Egg” is a 1968 film directed by Giulio Questi, with an international cast starring Ewa Aulin, Gina Lollobrigida and Jean-Louis Trintignant, a very special film from the photography of warm and g…
Music in 2 Dimensions – Works for Flute
In honor of the 40th anniversary of great composer/ conductor Bruno Maderna’s (1920-73) death, Mode is pleased to release the first complete CD of Maderna’s music for flute. The flute played an important part in Maderna’s oeuvre due to his friendship with the exceptional flutist Severino Gazzelloni, who had premiered almost all of the flute compositions. Musica su due dimensioni is among the earliest examples to make live music interact with electro-acoustic sounds recorded on tape. There …
Oboe Concertos
The oboe more than suited Maderna's partiality for clear structures and sensual-concrete sounds. It was not without good reason that at a time when the supply of music dedicated to the oboe was anything but plenty, Maderna wrote, not one, not two, but three concertos (besides several other works for oboe) for this "nasal" sounding member of the woodwind family. The first oboe concerto (1963) seems almost classical in its character, in the interplay of oboe and orchestra, or involving other instr…
Orchestral Works
From this combination of ancient styles and arts of the past with contemporary music arises a series of particularly impressive works. In his Ausstrahlung, for instance, Maderna uses texts from an ancient Persian anthology and poems by various Persian authors in English, Italian, French and German translations, which are recited, sung and played from tape. Some ten years before, Maderna wrote the Konzert für Oboe und Kammerensemble out of fondness for the oboe. Another two concerts would follow …
Musica elettronica
An amazing CD that compiles most of the Maderna electronic music production on magnetic tape from 1956 to 1962, all tapes created at the Studio di Fonologia Musicale della RAI Radio televisione Italiana in Milan. Bruno Maderna is yet regarded as one of the giants of post-war modernism, becoming one of the first Italians to produce electronic works. But it was not in technical progress that he saw music's future. Like his contemporaries, he also adopted 12-tone writing in the 1950s, yet Maderna r…