Franco Donatoni
La Viola Contemporanea (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX- (very small white tag on front) Distinguished violist Aldo Bennici presents works by five towering figures of the Italian avant-garde: Salvatore Sciarrino, Sylvano Bussotti, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, and Franco Donatoni. This collection represents the finest contemporary viola writing from Italy's post-war generation of composers, each exploring the instrument's expressive possibilities through distinctive compositional languages. From Sciarrino's delicate so…
Autori Italiani Per Clarinetto (LP)
condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) An important survey of contemporary Italian clarinet repertoire! Distinguished clarinetist Gaspare Tirincanti presents works by leading Italian composers, documenting the rich output for clarinet in post-war Italian music. A remarkable program beginning with Gaetano Donizetti's Studio and Nino Rota's Sonata in Re, then moving into the contemporary avant-garde with Niccolò Castiglioni's Daleth, Alearco Ambrosi's Iara, Luciano Berio's landmark Sequenza …
Continuum Ensemble Dortmund (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG+ (creasing + small tag on front + spine wear + minimal general wear). Italian post-war avant-garde meets the new music pioneers! This rare Italia label release documents the Continuum Ensemble Dortmund under conductor Werner Seiss performing landmark works from the European experimental vanguard. Carlos Roqué Alsina's Funktionen (1965) showcases the Argentine-French composer's work with Luciano Berio and …
Musica Cameristica Italiana Contemporanea (LP)
condition (record/cover): EX- (minimal surface noise) / VG+ (small tag on front + ring wear) Gatefold sleeve. Italian post-war chamber music at its finest. Marcello Panni conducts the Solisti di Teatromusica, the ensemble he founded in 1971, in essential works by four masters of Italian modernism. Recorded Rome, March 1972. Collana Edizioni Suvini Zerboni.
Franco Donatoni's Souvenir (Kammersymphonie, Op.18) showcases his serial period before the compositional crisis of the mid-1960s. Camillo To…
Musica nuova a Siena (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX - this album captures world premieres and rare works performed by Gruppo Octandre under Alain Meunier and other distinguished ensembles. The program features Salvatore Sciarrino's Due Nuove Melodie, Andrea Mannucci's Adagio Sostenuto, Franco Donatoni's Françoise Variationen, Maurizio Ferrari's Berceuse, Gilberto Bosco's Aria delle Carte (based on Carmen), and Giacomo Manzoni's Due Sonetti Italiani - a complex choral work from 1961 receiving its belated first perfo…
Live 2
1990 release **
Antecedente X
Franco Donatoni intraprende una sua strenua, singolarissima indagine del comporre musicale, inoltrandosi nella parte intima, più segreta e muta dell'attività compositiva. Prima edizione, 1980.Non c'è niente da fare, il libro va letto e riletto. Nonostante- logico- le critiche sull'approccio donatoniano alla composizione come "abbandono nichilistico DEL materiale (così specifica l'Autore) e non AL materiale. Nella rottura dell'equilibrio percettivo (realtà malata) sta tutta la musica post-avangua…