Niccolò Castiglioni
Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer on music, born in Milan, where he also died. Castiglioni trained in a neo-classical idiom, then took up twelve-tone writing and the brief, aphoristic manner of Webern, and became part of the European avant-garde through the Darmstadt courses. Pierre Boulez, Bruno Maderna, Michael Gielen and Hans Rosbaud conducted his music. Castiglioni took his piano diploma at the Milan Conservatory in 1952 and his composition diploma in 1953, then worked in Salzburg with Friedrich Gulda and Boris Blacher.
Edgard Varèse, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Giacomo Manzoni, Luciano Berio, Henri Pousseur, Pierre Schaeffer, François Bayle, Bruno Maderna, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Donatoni, Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Kagel, Gyorgy Ligeti, Niccolò Castiglioni, Boris Porena, John Cage, Marius Constant, Krzysztof Penderecki, Zbynek Vostrak, Edison Denisov, Erik Satie, Anton Webern
La musica moderna IV (16x10” binder)Amazing book-bound storage binder collecting 16 10" albums issued in the historical La Musica Moderna collection, without covers/magazines, published by Fratelli Fabbri in the late 1960's as a panorama of avant-garde music in the 20th century.
Luciano Berio, Niccolò Castiglioni, Nino Rota, Franco Donatoni, Alearco Ambrosi, Gaetano Donizetti, Gaspare Tirincanti
Autori Italiani Per Clarinetto (LP)Still sealed copy of obscure compilation on pop/disco label Real Sound with contemporary music compositions for clarinet performed by Gaspare Tirincanti. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Le Favole Di Esopo / Salmo XIX (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG+ (minimal wear and creasing) Includes 6-page LP-size insert. Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996), one of Italy's most refined and enigmatic modernist composers, is showcased here in two contrasting vocal works. Le Favole di Esopo (Aesop's Fables) transforms ancient tales into delicate, pointillistic sound-worlds of extraordinary refinement and wit. Salmo XIX brings sacred text to life through Castiglioni's ch…
Music For Solo Flute / Music For Flute And Piano (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (surface noise) / EX (minimal spine wear) Gatefold sleeve. An essential collaboration between two titans of contemporary music interpretation! Severino Gazzelloni (1919-1992), the legendary Italian flutist who redefined the instrument's possibilities in the post-war avant-garde, joins forces with Aloys Kontarsky (1931-2017), the German pianist renowned for his definitive interpretations of Stockhausen, Boulez, and the European serialist repertoire. This Time Records…
La Musica Moderna 108 (10")
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / EX- Oversize gatefold sleeve - no magazine. An important document of Italian post-war modernism from the prestigious educational series! Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996), one of Italy's most refined and poetic composers, presents Tropi - a work revealing his characteristic sensitivity to timbre and his ability to merge avant-garde techniques with lyrical impulse. Castiglioni studied with Goffredo Petrassi an…
Cangianti
An enchanting piano world: the music of this sensual aphorist encompasses a range from a naively childlike tone to sharp-edged expressiveness.
Quilisma
The succinctness of his work will first become fully apparent when it becomes possible to view the second half of the twentieth century from something more like a bird’s-eye view.